Bronte, Rev. Patrick.

The Rural Minstrel: a miscellany of descriptive poems. Halifax: P.K. Holden for the author, 1813; The Cottage in the Wood; or the Art of becoming rich and happy. Bradford: for T. Inkersley, 1818, second edition, engraved frontispiece; The Maid of Killarney; or, Albion and Flora: a modern Tale.... Baldwin, Cradock and Joy, 1818, errata leaf at the end, these all small 8vo in late nineteenth-century polished red calf gilt by Zaehnsdorf, spines in six compartments with morocco labels, top edges gilt, inner dentelles, red coated endpapers; Cottage Poems. Halifax: P.K. Holden for the author, 1811, nineteenth-century straight-grained red morocco gilt; A Sermon preached in the Church of Haworth, on Sunday, the 12th...September, 1824, in reference to an earthquake... Bradford: T. Inkersley, 1824; The Phenomenon; or an account in verse, of the extraordinary disruption of a bog...Bradford: T. Inkersley, 1824; A Funeral Sermon for the late Rev. William Weightman... Halifax: J.U. Walker, 1842; these last 3 pamphlets, various sizes, bound in half red morocco; first editions except where stated; some occasional spotting or soiling to text (5)

Sir George Armytage, and his eldest son G.J. Armytage, of Kirklees Park, their bookplates in (all but the last volume); thence by descent

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A collection of the tales, poems, sermons and other works of the father of the Brontë sisters: the Anglo-Irish curate and writer who was "aflame with intellectual arduour, both for himself and his children..concerned with them primarily as intellects in need of nurture--and vigorous nurture they got..." (Winifred Gérin, Charlotte Brontë. The Evolution of Genius)