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Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey
by Emily Bronte and Anne Bronte
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good +
- Seller
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Orange Park, Florida, United States
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About This Item
London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1900. Book. Very Good +. Cloth. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Two title pages dated 1900. One volume in the seven-volume illustrated Haworth Edition of the Life and Works of Charlotte Bronte and Her Sisters. Both novels complete in one volume with a preface and memoir of both authors by Charlotte Bronte and an introduction by Mrs. Humphry Ward. Publisher's green-cloth binding with gilt lettering on spine and front board. Gilt-covered top edge. Dark-blue endpapers. Eleven full-page b/w illustrations, including frontispiece portrait of Emily Bronte protected with tissue and facsimile reproductions of the title pages from the three-volume 1847 first edition. lviii+ 557 text pages + 2 pages publisher ads. Thick and heavy volume measuring 8 1/8" x 6" x 1 7/8". In VERY GOOD + condition. Bright and very clean exterior with no sunning. Gilt lettering is bright and unworn. Tightly bound and square with strong, secure hinges with no cracking. Bumped top front corner and bottom corner tips. Boards show some light surface wear, and two small bubbles in cloth on rear board. Excellent interior. Light foxing to frontispiece portrait and title page. Otherwise pages and engraved plates are bright, clean and flawless. No previous owner markings..
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Details
- Bookseller
- Odysseus Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3952
- Title
- Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey
- Author
- Emily Bronte and Anne Bronte
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Publisher
- Smith, Elder and Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1900
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Collectible, leather, Victorian
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature; 18th- and 19th-Century Books;
Terms of Sale
Odysseus Books
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Facsimile
- An exact copy of an original work. In books, it refers to a copy or reproduction, as accurate as possible, of an original...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
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