Lot 54: [BRONTË, CHARLOTTE.]

SHIRLEY. A TALE. BY CURRER BELL. SMITH, ELDER & CO., 1849
8vo (193 x 120mm.), first edition, 3 volumes, without the publisher's advertisements at the end of volume 1, signature *U1.8 in volume 3 a cancel ("patronizingly" hyphenated on p.289 with "n" carried over to next line and line 1. on p.304 in corrected state), 3pp. of advertisements at the end of volume 3, nineteenth-century half polished calf, spines in six compartments decorated in gilt, black and olive green morocco labels lettered in gilt, marbled boards and endpapers, top edges gilt, some slight spotting to early and late leaves and edges

Smith 5; Sadleir  348