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1907réf. 26417Edinburgh: John Grant 1907. Very Good. Edinburgh: John Grant 1905-07. Thornton Edition. Twelve octavo volumes. Illustrated with black and white photographs and illustrations principally showing places associated with the Bronte family and their novels. Green cloth with spine lettered in gilt; top edges gilt. A mismatched set with Wuthering Heights the only title from 1905 and slightly shorter. Bookplate of Lady Diana Duff Cooper to front pastedown of all volumes except Wuthering. Boards show light rubbing to edges toning to spine and edges white spotting to a few volumes Gaskell volume split at bottom of front joint. Bindings sound and pages unmarked; about Very Good. Author actress and aristocrat Lady Diana Cooper was a member of the pre-WWI group of intellectuals known as The Coterie most of whom were killed in the war. A Very Good set enriched by Cooper's evocative neoclassical bookplate. John Grant unknown
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1899réf. 003734london: Smith Elder & Co 1899. Book. Good. Hardcover. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Set of five volumes from what was published as a seven volume set between 1899 and 1910. Bound in green buckram with a CB monogram. Nice solid bindings gilt top edge. Some wear to boards minimal foxing to endpapers. Volume seven has very old water staining at the very beginning. Set comprises "Jane Eyre" "Villette" "Wuthering Heights" "Agnes Grey" "Shirley" and "The Life of Charlotte Bronte" by Mrs Gaskell. Makes a nice set set in their own right see pictures. UK only these are very heavy so postage will be a bit more than the automatic quote Adjusted for approval on processing. All our books at the moment are reduced so the price you see reflects a 33% discount. You may be interested in The Literaticus Book Service. We specialise in tracking down those harder to find editions among other bookish services such as gift fulfilment. Get in touch to send us your Book Wants or ask a bookish question. If this is intended as a gift please email first and I can gift wrap for no extra charge. If you would like special delivery but don't see an option for it just email first and I'll obtain a quote. If you have any questions require more information or if you would like more pictures do not hesitate to get in touch. Smith, Elder, & Co Hardcover
1899réf. 963T61London: Smith Elder & Co. 1899-1900. Cloth. Very Good. 8.5" by 5.5". None. A collection of five volumes of the Haworth edition of this series of works from the celebrated Bronte sisters. Five volumes of a seven volume set lacking volumes one and five. Haworth edition. With eleven illustrations each in Volumes I-V eight in Volume VI and seventeen in Volume VII. The Brontës were a nineteenth century literary family associated with the village of Haworth in the West Riding of Yorkshire England. The sisters Charlotte Emily and Anne are well-known poets and novelists who like many contemporary female writers published their work under male pseudonyms: Currer Ellis and Acton Bell respectively. Their stories attracted attention for their passion and originality immediately following their publication. Charlotte's Jane Eyre was the first to know success while Emily's Wuthering Heights Anne's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and other works were accepted as masterpieces of literature only after their deaths. This set contains: Volume II - Shirley by Charlotte Bronte 1899. Illustrated with a frontispiece a facsimile of the original title page and nine plates. Volume III - Villette by Charlotte Bronte 1899. Illustrated with a frontispiece a facsimile of the original title page and nine plates. Volume IV - The Professor by Charlotte Bronte 1900. Illustrated with a frontispiece a facsimile of the original title page and nine plates. Volume VI - The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte 1900. Illustrated with a frontispiece a facsimile of the original title page and six plates. Volume VII - The Life of Charlotte Bronte by Mrs. Gaskell or Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell an English novelist biographer and short story writer. Illustrated with a frontispiece a facsimile of the original title page and fifteen plates. Collated complete. With introductions to the works by Mary Augusta Ward a British novelist who wrote under her married name as Mrs Humphry Ward. As well as an introduction to the life by Clement King Shorter a British journalist and literary critic. With publisher's advertisements to the rear. In the original green cloth binding. Externally smart with light rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Minor fading to the spines of the odd volume with small marks to the boards. Minor splits in the cloth to the head and tail of the spines with a 1" split to the spine of volume VII. Hinges starting but firm with the front free endpaper of volume II loosening. Internally firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot and minor age toning to the extremities. The odd small ink underline with contemporary ink inscriptions to the endpapers. Previous owner's bookplate to the front pastedown. Very Good Smith, Elder, & Co. hardcover
1900réf. 201163London: Smith Elder & Company 1900. Haworth Edition; First Printing. Fine Binding. All 7 volumes Very Good in decorative boards. Owner personalization on Villette 2nd FEP. Soiling along spine heel of The Life of Charlotte Bronte and The Tennant of Wildfell Hall. Top text block edges gilded. Smith, Elder & Company unknown
1924réf. 834G13Edinburgh: John Grant 1924. Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 8.5" by 5.5". Not Stated. A beautiful twelve volume set of the Brontë sisters classic novels. The new Thornton Edition edited by Temple Scott. Complete in twelve volumes. In the publisher's original full cloth binding with gilt detail. A beautiful collection of these classic novels by the incredibly influential and successful Brontë sisters. This set comprising of: 'Wuthering Heights' by Emily Brontë with a preface by Charlotte Brontë. Illustrated with a frontispiece and four monochrome plates. Collated complete. 'Jane Eyre' by Charlotte Brontë complete in two volumes. Illustrated with a frontispiece in both volumes and nine plates altogether. Collated complete. 'Agnes Grey' by Anne Brontë. With a memoir of her sisters by Charlotte Brontë. Illustrated with a frontispiece. Collated complete. 'The Tenant of Wildfell Hall' by Anne Brontë complete in two volumes. Illustrated with a frontispiece in both volumes and one full page plate. Collated complete. 'Shirley' by Charlotte Brontë complete in two volumes. Illustrated with a frontispiece in both volumes and ten plates. Collated complete. 'Villette' by Charlotte Brontë complete in two volumes. Illustrated with a frontispiece in both volumes and four plates. Collated complete. 'The Professor' by Charlotte Brontë. Illustrated with a frontispiece and three plates. Collated complete. 'The Life of Charlotte Brontë' by E. C. Gaskell. Introduction and notes by Temple Scott and B. W. Willett. Illustrated with a frontispiece and twenty-four full page illustrations. Collated complete. In the original full cloth binding. Externally very smart with some shelf wear to the edges. The occasional light mark to the boards. Some light spotting and the occasional mark to the paste-downs and free endpapers heavier in 'Shirley' volumes one and two. Age-toning to the free endapers of 'Agnes Grey'. Internally firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with the occasional mark. Spotting towards the front and rear of 'Shirley' volumes one and two. Several pages throughout are uncut. Spotting to the fore-edges. Very Good Indeed John Grant hardcover
2004réf. 910670UK: Wiley-Blackwell 2004. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 3rd Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. no dustjacket. 3rd edition. 724 pages. small chip to top of half-title. Wiley-Blackwell Hardcover
réf. 0483410403.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
réf. 1331618711.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
réf. B9781167003905New. unknown
réf. 0259193658.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
réf. 033255614X.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1907réf. mon00001884971907-01-01. Unknown Binding. Good. in x in x in. Ex-library book Hardback/Hardcover usual stamps and marking. Clean text sound binding. unknown
réf. B9781164929727New. unknown
1889réf. 20968U. S. Publishing House. Good. Hardcover. Red cloth blind stamped cover with gilt is modestly soiled caps are lightly frayed corners are bumped and lightly worn but cover is in good condition. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. Former owner's name on front end sheet's printed book plate in ink. End sheets and paste downs have modest soiling. Pages are lightly toned some thumbing and in very good condition. B&W illustrated frontispiece many B&W plates and B&W illustrations. . 1889. U. S. Publishing House hardcover
1894réf. 26284John F. Waite 1894. Hardcover. Good - Used/None as Issued. Large format hardcover no jacket as issued light corner bump. Hinges intact but weak. Oversized and overweight ferg Please email for photos. John F. Waite hardcover
réf. a39278London 1940. Offprint from the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A No. 800 Vol. 239. Lg.4to. pp.29-94 foldout charts wraps. Good owner name stamp on front Henry Norris Russell spine worn closed tear at top of front wrap light soiling. paperback
réf. 419664Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery. Paperback. Fair. Archaeological report and catalogue on the pottery finds of the Castle Street sites C D E G and H excavations in Plymouth conducted between 1959 and 1969. Illustrated with diagrams.1979 edition. Plymouth Museum Archaeological Series no. 1. Condition: Covers shelfworn corner bumped rubbed creased marked sticker with previous owner's name and address on front. Pages clean and readable and binding intact. Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery paperback
18977 vols., 8vo., elegantly bound in contemporary half vellum BY TRUSLOVE & HANSON, sides in rose cloth, backs with tan leather labels blocked and lettered in gilt, backstrips elaborately tooled, ruled and dated in gilt to an ornate art-nouveau design, gilt tops, marbled endpapers, a remarkably bright, crisp set in splendid, wholly unrestored art-nouveau binding. THE BINDINGS ARE SIGNED ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER VERSOS. The set comprises (in chronological sequence): [Bronte, Charlotte.] Shirley. A Tale. New Edition 1897; [Bronte, Charlotte.] The Professor. To which are added the Poems of Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell, now first collected 1898; [Bronte, Charlotte.] Jane Eyre. An Autobiography, New Edition 1899; Bronte, Emily. Wuthering Heights [with] Bronte, Anne. Agnes Grey. With a Preface, and Memoir of both Authors, by Charlotte Bronte. New Edition 1899; Gaskell, [Elizabeth]. The Life of Charlotte Bronte 1900; [Bronte, Charlotte.] Villette. A New Edition 1901; Bronte, Anne. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. New Edition 1902. Gaskell's 'Life' has engraved title-vignette and full-page facsimile in the text. A SPLENDID SET IN OUTSTANDING SIGNED ART-NOUVEAU BINDING.
2026réf. LRB39016375Paris: Editions Recreasoft 2026 Language: English. Approximately 602 pages. Volume 2 of a multi-volume work. English: Print-on-demand reprint. Original edition : 1876. Text in English. This comprehensive collection gathers the major works of the Brontë sisters including novels and poetry alongside Elizabeth Gaskell's authoritative biography of Charlotte Brontë. The volume features Jane Eyre Shirley Villette The Professor Wuthering Heights and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall along with a selection of poems and a fragment of a story by Charlotte Brontë. A foundational text for Brontë scholars and admirers of 19th-century literature. Book images are non-contractual. Editions Recreasoft. Softcover. New. Editions Recreasoft paperback
1907réf. 54768Edinburgh: John Grant 1907. Thornton Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Twelve volumes octavo 20.7 by 13.8 cm. Half titles and titles in red and black; each volume with frontispiece and tissue guard; 50 illustrations reproduce photographs prints and drawings. Royal blue polished calf boards triple ruled in gilt; gilt tooled spine with raised bands and morocco lettering pieces; inner dentelles; top edge gilt other edges untrimmed as issued. Light wear and minor defects to covers; light to moderate foxing mostly at the first and last several leaves else a very good set handsomely bound by Zaehnsdorf. Finely bound early Thornton Edition first published by Downey and Co. at London in 1898 named for the village on the outskirts of Bradford West Yorkshire best known as being the birthplace of the Brontë sisters: Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights; Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre Villette The Professor and Shirley; Anne Brontë's Tenant of Wildfell Hall and Agnes Grey; E. C. Gaskell's Life of Charlotte Brontë. John Grant hardcover
1898réf. b44472London: Downey & Co. 1898. First printing of this edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. Engraved frontispieces. An extremely handsome set. All 12 volumes are near fine in full- leather red bindings with four raised bands labels and gilt decorations on all aspects and marbled endpapers. Light rubbing at the tips and the extremities. Volumes 3 and seven have partial chips on the spine labels. Tissue guard protectors for frontispieces all in place. A brief collation: vol. 1 i-viii1-376 pages; vol. 2: a-di-xii1-408 frontispiece portrait of Charlotte Bronte from an oil portrait by J.H. Browning; vol. 3: a-bi-xii1-458 frontispiece of Oakwell Hall from a photograph by J.J. Stead; vol. 4: i-xii1-476; vol. 5: a-fi-xii1-426 frontispiece of Haworth Church and Parsonage in the Time of Charlotte Bronte; vol. 6: i-viii1-410; vol. 7: a-fi-xii1-382 frontispiece of Charlotte Bronte from the portrait by G. Richmond; vol. 8: a-di-xvi1-502; vol. 9: i-xii1-306 frontispiece of Blake Hall Mirfield the "Horton Lodge" of "Agnes Grey"; vol. 10: i-x1-358 frontispiece of Anne Bronte from an original pencil drawing by Charlotte Bronte; vol. 11: i-viii1-352; vol. 12: ia-fi-xvi1-530. Eleven volumes contain the novels of the Bronte sisters and volume twelve is The Life of Charlotte Bronte by Mrs. E.C. Gaskell. A perfect gift for Bronte devotees! Downey & Co. hardcover
1888réf. 523059London: Smith Elder and Co. 1888. Hardcover 7-volume complete set without dust jackets. Each book is bound in half green cloth with marbled paper sides uncut page blocks frontispiece and previous owner's name and date 1888-89 penned to FEP. Board edges are worn page blocks are tanned. "Villette" has a small tear to front board paper and taped repair to hinge at rear paste down. "Shirley" has hinge breaks at front and rear pastedowns. "Wuthering Heights" has a bump and crack to rear board lower leading corner. All have light foxing throughout. Contents are clean and unmarked. More photos available upon request. AD. First Thus. Hardcover. Good. Used. Smith, Elder and Co. Hardcover
1902réf. 78249London: Smith Elder & Co. 1899-1902. Small 8vo. 7 volumes various paginations 1899-1902 the Haworth edition. Containing: Wildfell Hall; Agnes Grey; Poems; Wuthering Heights; The Professor; Shirley; Jane Eyre; Villette; and Mrs Gaskell's life of Charlotte Bronte. Illustrated with a few b/w plates in every volume primarily of locations within the books. Bound in a smart green cloth with gilt monogram 'C B' on the front boards gilt lettering to spine and top edge gilt. Bumping to spine ends and rubbing to joints some with striations. Jane Eyre spine with a little discolouration and a faint line through centre and a patch of discolouration to lower joint of Shirley; occasional split to hinges at endpapers and spotting to prelims. Bindings generally sound and contents very good and clean. A good uniform set of the works of the Bronte sisters. Bindings 21cm tall. . Good. Gilt Lettered Cloth. 1st Thus. 1902. Smith, Elder, & Co. 1899-1902 hardcover
1902réf. 55434Smith Elder & Co. Good with no dust jacket. 1902. Hardback. Please note that this is a heavy item and may require extra postage for shipping.; 7 Volumes consisting of 'The Life of Charlotte Bronte' by Elizabeth Gaskell 659pp 'Shirley' 666 pp 'The Professor' 546pp 'Villette' 594pp and 'Jane Eyre' 553pp by Charlotte Bronte 'Wuthering Heights' by Emily Bronte 350pp 'Agnes Grey' 207pp and 'The Tennant of Wildfell Hall' by Anne Bronte 502pp. All copies have sturdy boards with bumped corners some with superficial markings to front or rear; spines sunned and a little torn at edges particularly at crown; binding is tight although joints are exposed on a couple of pages; pages are crisp but age-toned and occasionally foxed though without annotations aside from previous owner's signature which appears on preliminaries of all copies. Overall this is a lovely set that is beginning to show its age. . Smith Elder & Co hardcover
