Lot 40: [BRONTË, CHARLOTTE.]

THE PROFESSOR, A TALE. BY CURRER BELL. SMITH, ELDER & CO., 1857
8vo (193 x 126mm.), 2 volumes, first edition, Ellen Nussey's copy, 8pp.advertisements for the "Uniform Edition of the Works of Currer Bell" and 16 page publisher's catalogue dated June 1857 at the end of volume 1, advertisements leaf at the end of volume 2, 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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the author's close friend Ellen Nussey, probably acquired near the time of publication; 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