Search Results: Books by charlotte bronte

London: Smith, Elder, 1847. First Edition; three volumes; publisher’s cloth; the fly-title of the publisher’s catalogue is dated June, 1847 and the catalogue itself is dated October, 1847. This set has the very uncommon “Calcutta Review” ad inserted (while copies lacking it are not considered incomplete, it is preferable to include it); complete with the half-titles in each volume. This set is in what might be termed, for a book so seldom seen in its original binding, in usual condition; in this instance, this standard is not a high one. Overall, this set is in the shabbier side of good condition. Unlike many of the few sets that have surfaced in cloth, it has not been rebacked, but it has undergone modest cloth mending; there is cloth staining and numerous, but generally minor, paper repairs to small chips and tears. However, the title page of the first volume has been rehinged. For all that, Jane Eyre is nearly always seen rebound, and these defects aside, a better copy is seldom seen. In a… Read More

London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1883. Hardcover. There are tears and some chipping to scattered pages, not very many, due to the cheap quality of the paper. Contents Very Good; bindings Fine. Complete in seven volumes. Recently rebound in half polished red calf with matching corners and marbled boards and endpapers, gilt-lettered and decorated spines with five raised bands, top edges gilt; illustrated with plates. The first and fourth volumes are SIGNED by the future president and dated 1885 on the front blanks. The second and third volumes have written on the front blanks in the same, unknown hand Christmas 1885 presentations to Christine Griffin Roosevelt, one from C. K. G. and the other from Aunt Lucie. Christine Roosevelt was the wife of William Emlem Roosevelt, first cousin and frequent advisor to President Roosevelt.

London: Smith, Elder and Co, 1848. Third Edition. Very Good. Third edition, published one year after the first. Three volumes, bound in early 20th-century half red morocco over marbled paper boards, all edges marbled. Near Fine with light rubbing to bindings, evidence of bookplate removal from front pastedowns, pages lightly toned.

C6a. Very Good. Leather. Leather. 8vo. Published by Harper & Brothers, New York. 1848, 1850, 1853. 174, 206, 184 pgs. 1 pp of ads after Jane Eyre. Text in double column. First US Edition/First Printing. Bound in 3/4 black leather and marble paper covered boards with title of Currer Bell's Novels present to the spine. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities. Foxing present. Previous owner's name present to the FFEP. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Charlotte Brontë (21 April 1816 – 31 March 1855) was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels have become classics of English literature. She first published her works (including her best known novel, Jane Eyre) under the pen name Currer Bell. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

New York: Harper, 1848. First American edition. hardcover, rebound in leather. Very good. The first US edition, attributed on the title page to Currer Bell, very good in a nice leather rebinding.

London: Smith, Elder and Co, 1857. First Edition. Very Good. First edition, first printing. Two volumes, bound in publisher's original cloth patterned in blind with titles stamped in gilt on the spine. Very Good with light rubbing through at extremities, rubbing and fading to cloth. Scattered pencil notations to yellow coated endsheets, contemporary owner name to title pages and slight perfume odor to pages. A lovey copy of the Charlotte Bronte's first novel.

London: Smith, Elder, 1857. First Edition; first issue; two volumes. Some hinges cracking and nearly invisibly mended; ownership signature in one volume; very light cloth wear and fading; an excellent set. In a custom quarter-leather clamshell box.

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

London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1853. Three volumes. Full blue polished calf, raised bands, tan morocco title lables with gilt titles and publication date in gilt, decorative gilt spines, gilt ruled boards, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers. Binding SIGNED by Zaehnsdorf, London. True First Edition / First Printing with 12 pages of publisher's ads dated January 1853 in volume one. (5.25" x 8"), pp. 324, plus 12 pages of ads, 319, 350. Considered by many to be her finest novel, surpassing "Jane Eyre." An exceptionally clean, tight set in a fine binding. Size: Octavo. First Edition.. Leather. Near Fine.

London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1853. Three volumes complete - Volume One - [4], 324pp, [12]p adverts; Volume Two - [4], 319pp, [1] and Volume Three - [4], 350pp, [2]. Later half morocco and cloth by Riviere for Sotheran, raised bands, spines in six panels, title lettered directly to second panel, author and volume number to third, date to foot, remaining panels gilt with central tudor rose, from which emanates four trefoils with pointille background, dotted roll to bands and head and foot, with single line to covers, t.e.g. Very slightly rubbed to extremities, spines very slightly faded, but otherwise externally quite bright. Some light browning and occasional spotting to text, Z1 with transposing of a couple of letters, but no loss of sense. No half-titles called for, and with the publisher's catalogue to rear of first volume dated January 1853. Bookplate of Howard Douglas and Leonard Galton to front pastedowns. Regarded by many as Charlotte Bronte's greatest novel, here in an attractive binding.… Read More

Edinburgh: John Grant, 1911. hardcover. fine. 12 volumes. Tall thick 8vo, 3/4 tan calf, decoratively gilt spines with red and green labels, top edges gilt. Edinburgh: John Grant, 1911. Fine.<br/> <br/> Thornton Edition.<br/> <br/>

Edinburgh: John Grant 31 George IV, Bridge, 1924. The Thornton Edition. Illustrated. Printed by Loiver and Boyd, Edinburgh. 12 vols. 8vo. Three quarter blue morocco and marbled paper board, gilt spines, somewhat faded, teg and other edges uncut, over all very good. The Thornton Edition. Illustrated. Printed by Loiver and Boyd, Edinburgh. 12 vols. 8vo. A beautiful set of the Thornton edition. The most desirable and attractive edition of the works of the Bronte sisters, which includes the 7 novels in 11 volumes, as well as Gaskell's Life of Charlotte Bronte as the final volume.

Oxford: , 1931. The Shakespeare Head Brontë A Fine Set in the Original Dust Jackets [SHAKESPEARE HEAD PRESS]. BRONTË, [Charlotte, Emily, and Anne]. The Shakespeare Head Brontë. Oxford: Newly Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press and Published for the Press by Basil Blackwell, 1931. Limited to 1,000 copies. Eleven large octavo volumes (containing the Novels). [Together with:] [SHAKESPEARE HEAD PRESS]. BRONTË, [Charlotte, Emily, and Anne.] The Brontës: Their Lives, Friendships and Correspondence. In Four Volumes. [Edited by Thomas James Wise and John Alexander Symington]. Oxford: Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press and Published for the Press by Basil Blackwell, 1932. Limited to 750 copies. Four large octavo volumes. [And:] [SHAKESPEARE HEAD PRESS]. BRONTË, Charlotte, and Patrick Branwell. The Poems of Charlotte Brontë & Patrick Branwell Brontë. [Edited by Thomas James Wise and John Alexander Symington]. Oxford: Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press and Published for the Press by Basil… Read More

Edinburgh: John Grant, 1924. Thornton Edition. Twelve octavo volumes (8 1/8 x 5 1/2 inches; 205 x 140 mm.). Handsomely bound ca. 1960 by [Rivière] for Henry Sotheran in three-quarter red calf over red cloth boards ruled in blind. Spines decoratively tooled in gilt in compartments, two blue and green morocco lettering labels, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Frontispieces and plates. Half-titles and title-pages printed in red and black. Seven of the green spine labels are faded, otherwise near fine. The Thornton Edition was first published in 1905, named for the village on the outskirts of Bradford, West Yorkshire best known as being the birthplace of the Brontës. The moorlands of that area "had a profound influence on the writing of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Bronte...at their home the children created a rich imaginary world. Any books that came their way were eagerly devoured, and they produced their own books as well" (Bronte Society). As the sisters rose to adulthood, their novels began to… Read More

London: Smith, Elder, 1848. First Edition; three volumes; bound without the ads in 19th century black half-morocco and marbled paper boards; top edges gilt; contemporary ownership signature on the title page of the first volume (along with the notation “first edition”) and on the blanks of the other two; bookplates; an attractive set of the author’s second novel.

Oxford: Newly Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press and Published for the Press by Basil Blackwell. 1931-38.. LIMITED EDITION (The novels limited to 1000 copies; the accompanying volumes limited to 750). 20 vols. 8vo (23 x 15.5cm). Original orange cloth, titles to spines gilt, top edges gilt others uncut, all with original cream dust jackets. Title-pages printed in red and black. Illustrations from engravings by Jack Hewer with captioned tissue guards to all novels. A few dust-jackets frayed at extremities with occasional minimal losses, some dust-soiling and spotting to edges, generally an excellent set. The novels occupy the first eleven volumes and were published in 1931. Eight further volumes were published between 1932 and 1938, consisting of The Bront�s: Their Lives, Friendships, and correspondence (four volumes); The Miscellaneous and Unpublished Writings of Charlotte and Patrick Branwell Bront� (two volumes); and Poems (two volumes), plus the rare Gondal Poems (although no limitation… Read More

Edinburgh: John Grant, 1924. Edited by Temple Scott. In twelve volumes, totalling approximately 5000 pages, each volume with frontispiece (most with tissue guards), all but 2 volumes with other plates (totalling 67 plates in the set), the half-title and title pages printed in red & black; dark green cloth, spines lettered and decorated in gilt, the cloth occasionally a trifle marked, a few corners lightly bruised; t.e.g., others uncut, a couple of volumes partly unopened; dust wrappers, a trifle soiled, edges sometimes very slightly rubbed and split; free endpapers faintly offset, hinges occasionally tender, scattered light foxing; John Grant, Edinburgh, 1924. Thornton Edition, later printing. *Includes Mrs. Gaskell's Life of Charlotte Bronte, with an Introduction and notes by Temple Scott and B. W. Willett. The novels Jane Eyre, Villette, Shirley and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall are each in two volumes.

Smith Elder & Co.,, 1897-1902. 7 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;… Read More

London: Smith Elder & Co, 1853. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition, first printing. Bound in contemporary blind stamped half calf with gilt stamped compartments and five raised bands; red and brown morocco spine labels lettered in gilt. All edges marbled. Complete in three volumes with 12-pages of adverts at rear dated January, 1853. Near Fine with rubbing to edges and boards, dust soiling. Armorial bookplates of Robert Smith on front pastedowns. Bookseller's ticket on front pastedown of volume I. Light toning to contents with sporadic foxing. A beautiful set of this classic Victorian triple decker.

Smith, Elder & Co, London., 1857. First edition. Octavo. Two volumes: pp viii, 294, [2] adverts; [iv], 258, [2]. 8 pages of adverts, plus 16-page catalogue dated June 1857 at rear of second volume. Original purple cloth decorated in blind, lettered in gilt on spines.On the covers of the first volume are the library labels, evidently of the period, of the Grand Pump Room Library, which was situated in the Abbey Church Yard, Bath, and which was part of the bookshop founded by William Meyler, printer, publisher, newspaperman and politician. It was in Meyler's bookshop that Shelley and Mary Godwin lodged during their stay in Bath in 1816/17.Small ownership signature on front free endpaper of first volume. A bit of foxing here and there. Covers faded, especially at the spines. A very good, tight set.