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Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey

Lot 92
25.04.2022 10:00UTC -05:00
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$ 4 410
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Event locationUSA, New York
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ID 743743
Lot 92 | Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey
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$ 2 000 – 3 000
[BRONTË, Emily (1818-1848) and Anne BRONTË (1820-1849).] BELL, Ellis and Acton, pseud. Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey. A New edition revised... by Currer Bell. London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1851 [but 1850]. Second English edition of Emily Brontë’s classic novel, one of the greatest and most enduringly popular works in the English language. Although both Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey were written and accepted for publication before Charlotte had completed Jane Eyre, it was the latter work which would be published first. The immediate and enormous success of Jane Eyre prompted Thomas Cautley Newby to bring forward the release of the present works in order to capitalize on the phenomenon. The exact number of copies printed is unknown, but it is suggested by Charlotte in a letter of 13 September 1850 that the 1847 first edition print run of Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey was limited to just 250 copies. The second edition was published in at the end of 1850, and the present copy has the second state 1851 title page: "After printing the 1850 title page, the publishers probably decided to change the year to 1851 because of the late date of publication (December 1850). A second state of the title page with the new date was run, and copies were distributed with both titlepages." Smith further notes that title pages were "inserted indiscriminately," and regarding the extracts from reviews, he notes the leaf may be in the front, the rear, "or it may be missing." Smith The Bronte Sisters: A Bibliographical Catalogue, p.63. Octavo (170 x 110mm). Half title and section titles; without extracts from reviews that are sometimes present. Contemporary half calf over marlbed boards (spine chipped along rear joint, most of leather label lacking, wear to extremities). Provenance: Henry Bullar, 1815-1870 (bookplate) – Edith Penelope Bullar, 1843-1920 (ownership inscription).
Place of origin:United Kingdom
Auction house category:Printed books
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