Life and Works of the Sisters Bronte -- Thornfield Edition -- Vol.I: Jane Eyre, Vol.II: Shirley, Vol.III: Villette Vol.IV: The Professor/Poems, Vol.V: Wuthering Heights/Agnes Grey, Vol.VI: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Vol.VII: The Life of Charlotte Bronte -- Complete Set by Bronte, Charlotte; Emily Bronte and Ann Bronte; Mary Arnold Ward (prefaces), Clement K. Shorter (introductions) and Elizabeth Gaskell (author of The Life of Charlotte Bronte) - 1899-1900

Nabu Press, 2012-02-12. Paperback. Good.

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell and Company, [c. 1900]. The set is in very good condition.. Binding: Green cloth boards with Charlotte Bronte’s signature in gilt on top, gilt title and art deco motif to spine. , Notes: Although the title says “The Complete Works”, the following volumes contain only “Wuthering Heights”, “Agnes Grey”, “The Professor”, “Emma”, poetry by all three sisters, and the “Life of Charlotte Bronte”., Size: 8vo, Illustration: Complete with 18 photographic prints. , Volume: Two Volumes, Pages: P. [First Volume] xv, 269, 168 pp.; [Second Volume] vi, 371, 110 pp., Category: Book Literature

London: 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.

London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1892-6. 8vo. 7 volume set. Smart green cloth with binding with dulled gilt top edge. Slight bumping to the spine ends and boards generally clean with minor marks, particularly to Wuthering Heights. Minor spotting to the extremities and internally clean with contemporary ownership inscription to the front endpaper. Bindings firm. Features Mrs Gaskell's life of Charlotte Bronte. . Very Good. Cloth. New Edition. 1896.

John Murray, 1926-1933. 6 vols (lacks Vol 7 The Life of Charlotte Bronte): Jane Eyre (reprint 1932), Shirley (reprint 1933), Villette (reprint 1932), The Professor & Poems (reprint 1926), Wuthering Heights & Agnes Grey (reprint 1931), The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (reprint 1926). 8vo (7 x 4½ ins). Original gilt decorated blind-ruled brown cloth, top edges brown (some light spots on boards - otherwise a bright VG set), no dustwrappers. Pp. various (school prize plate on front paste-down of vol I and previous owner's neat 1934 inscription on front free endpapers of vols II-VI).

London: Smith, Elder, & Co, 1900-6. Cloth. Very Good. 8" by 6". Various. A seven volume set of 'The Life and Works of Charlotte Bronte and Her Sisters' illustrated throughout, with introduction and notes by Mrs Humphry Ward and Clement K. Shorter With eleven illustrations each in Volumes I-V, eight in Volume VI and seventeen in Volume VII. The Brontë sisters, Charlotte (April 21, 1816 – March 31, 1855), Emily (July 30, 1818 – December 19, 1848) and Anne (January 17, 1820 – May 28, 1849), were English writers of the 1840s and 1850s. Their novels caused a sensation when they were first published and were subsequently accepted into the canon of great English literature. The sisters grew up in Haworth, near Keighley in West Yorkshire (the region has come to be known as Brontë Country), surviving their mother and two elder sisters into adulthood. Charlotte and Emily had written compulsively from early childhood and were first published, at their own expense, in 1846 as poets under the… Read More

Harper and Brothers Publishers, 1900. Seven Volume Set, Fine condition, ornate blue cloth. Thornfield edition illustrated with prefaces by Mrs. Humphry Ward and the Life of Charlotte Bronte by Mrs. Gaskell. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Cover.

London: John Murray, 1920-1926. The Haworth edition of the works of the sisters Bronte. Octavo, 7 volumes bound in full crushed levant scarlet morocco by Riviere & Son, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, triple gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles stamp-signed by Riviere & Son, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, tissue-guarded frontispiece to each volume, illustrated. In near fine condition. A stunning set. The Brontes were a nineteenth-century literary family associated with the village of Thornton in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England. The sisters, Charlotte, Emily, and Anne are well known as poets and novelists. Like many contemporary female writers, they originally published their poems and novels under male pseudonyms: Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell. Their stories immediately attracted attention, although not always the best, for their passion and originality. Charlotte's Jane Eyre was the first… Read More