Lot 38: [BRONTË, CHARLOTTE.]

SHIRLEY. A TALE. BY CURRER BELL. SMITH, ELDER & CO., 1849
8vo (194 x 120mm.), first edition, Ellen Nussey's copy, 16-page publisher's catalogue at the end of volume 1, advertisements at the end of volume 3, p.304 in volume 2 misnumbered "403" and with error "Well said he", bookplate with vignette of Oakwell Hall, Birstall, nr. Leeds tipped-in to volume 1, late nineteenth-century polished red calf gilt by Zaehnsdorf, original brown cloth spines bound in, spines in six compartments with morocco labels, top edges gilt, inner dentelles, red coated endpapers, spines sunned and with some slight wear, some minor soiling and spotting to text

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presented by the author near the time of publication to her lifelong friend Ellen Nussey; given by Ellen in May 1889 to Sir George John Armytage, 6th baronet of Kirklees (Armytage bookplate and additional printed leaf, c.1889, with full provenance, signed by Ellen Nussey, bound in at the front of each volume); thence by descent