Sales catalogue 443: Maggs Bros

Date:
1923
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/24
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 443: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The Brontés— continued. Bronté (Charlotte)—continued. visit is given by her in the “ Life.’ The manuscript gives a most fascinating account of the Bronté family, their family life, peculiarities, work, &c. Charlotte, in 1854, married the Rev. A. B. Nicholls, but her wedded life was destined to be of very short duration; never in the best of health, she died in the following year. Mrs. Gaskell, at the request of the Rev. Patrick Bronté, became her friend’s bicgrapher, and has in her “ Life of Charlotte Bronté,’”’ left a lasting memorial to their friendship, a memorial which ranks with Boswell’s “ Life of Dr. Johnson ”’; both of which famous biographies have served to immortalise the writers as well. 233 ———— Poems, by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Beli. FIRST EDITION. F’cap. 8vo, ovzgznal cloth, uncut. London, Smith Elder, 1846. £2 10s 234 ———— The Professor, a Tale. By Currer Bell. FIRST EDITION. 2 vols., crown 8vo, orzginal cloih, uncut. London, 1857. £2 2s 235 —_—_— The Red Gross Knight and other Poems. FIRST EDITIONS. Small 4to, zz the original printed wrapper. Printed for Private Circulation only, 1917. £3 3s Only 39 copies were printed for T. J. Wise. 230 ———— Richard Goeur de Lion and Blondel. A Poem. FIRST EDITION. Small 8vo, original wrappers. London, Printed for Private Circulation, 1913. £5 5s Only 30 copies of this very rare pamphlet have been published. 237 ———— Villette. By Currer Bell. FIRST EDITION. 3 vols., post 8vo, ozzginal cloth, uncut. London, 1853. £4 15s 238 ——— The Violet, a Poem written at the Age of Fourteen FIRST EDITION. Small 4to, ovzginal wrappers, 1910. £7 10s *** One of 25 copies privately printed by Clement Shorter for distribution among his friends. 239 ———— Life, by Mrs. E. C. Gaskell. Portrait and View of Haworth. FIRST EDITION. 2 vols., 8vo, orvzginal cloth, uncut. London, 1857. | £2 10s
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