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Charlotte Brontë, 1853
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Villette
Charlotte Brontë, 1853
[BRONTË, Charlotte (1816-1855).] Villette. By Currer Bell, author of "Jane Eyre," "Shirley," etc. London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1853.
First edition of the author’s last novel to be published during her lifetime. A beautiful copy. George Eliot praised Villette as “a still more wonderful book than Jane Eyre. There is something almost preternatural in its power", while Virginia Woolf called it Brontë’s “finest novel.” Parrish 95; Sadleir 349; Smith 6.
Three volumes, octavo. 12 pp. ads dated January 1853 at rear of vol. 1 (vol. 1 with erasure to title, vol. 3 with a little soiling to rear endpapers). Original cloth (hinges repaired, some very minor rubbing to cloth, vol. 3 with a little wear to front joint and two small ink stains to cover); custom box.
Provenance: Tom Brooke (inscription to title page of vol. 3).
Charlotte Brontë, 1853
[BRONTË, Charlotte (1816-1855).] Villette. By Currer Bell, author of "Jane Eyre," "Shirley," etc. London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1853.
First edition of the author’s last novel to be published during her lifetime. A beautiful copy. George Eliot praised Villette as “a still more wonderful book than Jane Eyre. There is something almost preternatural in its power", while Virginia Woolf called it Brontë’s “finest novel.” Parrish 95; Sadleir 349; Smith 6.
Three volumes, octavo. 12 pp. ads dated January 1853 at rear of vol. 1 (vol. 1 with erasure to title, vol. 3 with a little soiling to rear endpapers). Original cloth (hinges repaired, some very minor rubbing to cloth, vol. 3 with a little wear to front joint and two small ink stains to cover); custom box.
Provenance: Tom Brooke (inscription to title page of vol. 3).
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