![Item #54768 Novels of the Sisters Bronte [COMPLETE IN 12 VOLUMES- Full Blue Polished Calf Bindings]. Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte, Mrs. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, 1907 Temple Scott.](https://klinebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/54768_1.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1751481371)
Novels of the Sisters Bronte [COMPLETE IN 12 VOLUMES- Full Blue Polished Calf Bindings]
Edinburgh: John Grant, 1907. Thornton Edition. Hardcover. Twelve volumes, octavo (20.7 by 13.8 cm). Half titles and titles in red and black; each volume with frontispiece and tissue guard; 50 illustrations reproduce photographs, prints, and drawings. Royal blue polished calf, boards triple ruled in gilt; gilt tooled spine with raised bands and morocco lettering pieces; inner dentelles; top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed as issued. Light wear and minor defects to covers; light to moderate foxing (mostly at the first and last several leaves), else a very good set, handsomely bound by Zaehnsdorf.
Finely bound early Thornton Edition (first published by Downey and Co. at London in 1898), named for the village on the outskirts of Bradford, West Yorkshire best known as being the birthplace of the Brontë sisters: Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights; Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, Villette, The Professor, and Shirley; Anne Brontë's Tenant of Wildfell Hall, and Agnes Grey; E. C. Gaskell's Life of Charlotte Brontë. Very good. Item #54768
Price: $3,250.00