THE FIRST BIOGRAPHY OF BRONTË

GASKELL, E.C.

The Life of Charlotte Brontë, Author of "Jane Eyre", "Shirley", "Villette", &c. Copyright Edition. In Two Volumes. 2 Vols.

Leipzig, Tauchnitz, 1857.

Small 8vo. Bound with both original front wrappers in a later (ab. 1900) green full cloth w. gilt leather title-label to spine. Some brownspotting. W. half titles. VIII, 314; VIII, 298 pp.

First Tauchnitz edition of the first biography of Charlotte Brontë by the important English novelist of the Victorian era, the author of "Mary Barton" and "Cranford", and a close friend of Charlotte Brontë. This edition appeared in the same year as the first edition (London, 1857), in the series "Collection of British Authors".

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