July 2021 Catalogue

P r e • 1 9 0 0 L i t e r a t u r e 5 Life And Works Of The Sisters Brontë 3. BRONTË, Charlotte, Emily and Anne. Life and Works of the Sisters Brontë. London, 1899-1900. Seven volumes. Octavo, contemporary full tree calf gilt. $4200. Click for more info “Thornfield Illustrated Edition” of the Brontë sisters’ admired novels, illustrated with frontispiece portraits and numerous photographic plates throughout, beautifully bound in contemporary tree calf-gilt by Oxford. Includes Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, Shirley, Villette , and The Professor ; Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights ; and Anne Brontë’s Tenant of Wildfell Hall and Agnes Grey . Also includes Elizabeth C. Gaskell’s noted biography of Charlotte Brontë. Bookseller’s ticket. A beautiful illustrated set in fine condition. Lovely Edition Of Jane Austen’s Collected Novels And Letters, Finely Bound 2. AUSTEN, Jane. Works. Boston, 1902-03. Twelve volumes. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter red morocco gilt. $4400. Click for more info Later editionof Austen’s collectednovels and selected letters, with a frontispiece illustration in each volume, “bound in England” in lovely contemporary morocco-gilt for renowned American bookseller Charles E. Lauriat. Includes Austen’s novels ( Emma, Persuasion, Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice among them) and letters, aswell as amemoir of the author by her nephew, J.E. Austen Leigh. Also includes Lady Susan —Austen’s short epistolary novel—and The Watsons — her unfinished novel. Neat early owner signatures. Fine condition, a lovely set.