Novels of the Sisters Bronte: Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Villette, The Professor, Agnes Grey, Shirley, and Life of Charlotte Bronte [Twelve volume set]

  • Edinburgh: John Grant, 1907
By Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Bronte; Mary Gaskell; Temple Scott [ed.]
Edinburgh: John Grant, 1907. Very Good. Edinburgh: John Grant, 1905-07. Thornton Edition. Twelve octavo volumes. Illustrated with black and white photographs and illustrations principally showing places associated with the Bronte family and their novels. Green cloth with spine lettered in gilt; top edges gilt. A mismatched set with Wuthering Heights the only title from 1905 and slightly shorter. Bookplate of Lady Diana Duff Cooper to front pastedown of all volumes except Wuthering.

Boards show light rubbing to edges, toning to spine and edges, white spotting to a few volumes, Gaskell volume split at bottom of front joint. Bindings sound and pages unmarked; about Very Good.

Author, actress, and aristocrat Lady Diana Cooper was a member of the pre-WWI group of intellectuals known as The Coterie, most of whom were killed in the war. A Very Good set, enriched by Cooper's evocative neoclassical bookplate.

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