FINELY BOUND SET OF THE WORKS OF THE BRONTE SISTERS

BRONTE, Charlotte, BRONTE, Emily, and BRONTE, Anne. The Life and Works of Charlotte Bronte and Her Sisters. London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1884-1885. Seven volumes. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter tan calf gilt, raised bands, elaborately gilt-decorated spines, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. $4500.

Illustrated seven-volume edition of the works of the Bronte sisters, handsomely bound.

Includes Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, Shirley, Villette and The Professor; Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte; Agnes Grey and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte; the poems of Charlotte, Emily, Anne and Patrick Bronte; and Mrs. Gaskell's Life of Charlotte Bronte. Each volume features an engraved frontispiece and title-page vignette and additional views of buildings and landscapes from the stories; the Life opens with a portrait engraved by J.C. Armytage after George Richmond. Smith, Elder & Co. first published this well-received edition in 1872.

Contents clean; leather with a few small scuffs. A very attractive set in handsome 19th-century bindings.