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BRONTË, CHARLOTTE, EMILY, & ANNE | The Novels of the Sisters Brontë. Edinburgh: John Grant, 1924

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December 18, 08:58 PM GMT

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2,500 - 3,500 USD

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BRONTË, CHARLOTTE, EMILY, & ANNE

The Novels of the Sisters Brontë. Edinburgh: John Grant, 1924


12 vola., 8vo (8 x 5 1/4 in.; 203 x 133 mm). Series titles, half-title and titles printed in red and black, numerous portraits and illustrations; some minor toning. 20th-century brown half morocco over cloth-covered boards, bound for Henry Sotheran by Morrell of London, spines gilt in six compartments with raised bands, the bands highlighted with dot rolls, lettered in the second and third compartments, the others bordered in gilt, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt.


A finely bound set of this well-regarded Thornton Edition of the Brontës' works, with a uniformly printed and bound copy of Elizabeth Gaskell's biography of Charlotte.