Fine Books and Manuscripts, Including the Olympic Manifesto
Fine Books and Manuscripts, Including the Olympic Manifesto
Auction Closed
December 18, 08:58 PM GMT
Estimate
2,500 - 3,500 USD
Lot Details
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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.