Fine Books and Manuscripts, Including Americana. Part 2

[Brontë, Emily] Wuthering Heights. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1848 12mo (188 x 125 mm). Foxed, several gatherings dampstained, a few old creases at corners, one or two ink stains. Publisher's ripple-grain cloth, boards stamped in blind, spine lettered and embellished in gilt; overall rubbed with loss and fraying, staining and soiling to cloth, joints starting. The first American edition of the turbulent Gothic romance between Cathy and Heathcliff. "Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same" (71). Wuthering Heights was Emily Brontë's only novel, published after her death and here incorrectly attributed to her sister Charlotte, "the author of Jane Eyre." The misattribution stemmed from the Brontë's London publisher, Thomas Newby, who erroneously believed that the sisters Charlotte, Emily, and Anne—writing under the pen names Currer, Ellis, and Acton, respectively—were in fact one person, an untruth which spread to the novel's American publishers. The true authorship was not revealed to the public until Charlotte's biographical notice was added to the novel's 1850 uniform edition (Smith). The exceptionally scarce first English edition, published in December 1847, was issued in 2 volumes and correctly attributed to Ellis Bell; it also included an additional volume by Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey, under her pseudonym Acton. The first American edition, only Wuthering Heights, was published on 21 April 1848, simultaneously issued as a single cloth volume (75¢) and as two parts with paper wrappers (25¢ each), with no priority (Smith). The present copy bears ownership inscriptions from the year of publication: John Henry Williams, who owned the historic Woodlawn house in Nashville, and his daughter Lera, indicating interest from young women readers early on. The volume remained in the Woodlawn library for over a century. The enduring tale of love, class, possession, and jealousy certainly lives on; its star-studded adaptation earlier this year grossed nearly $214 million worldwide. REFERENCES Smith p. 74-75; Symington, p 100; Tinker 389 PROVENANCE John Henry Williams (ownership inscription to title page, dated "Nashville, Sept 1848") — several contemporary manuscript inscriptions and initials to pastedowns — Lera D. Williams (ownership inscription in pencil to endpapers, "Woodlawn Tennessee"; her name is also listed on the pastedown in a different hand) — Mrs. Dorothy Moore, who purchased Woodlawn and its library in 1922 — gifted to Paul Clements in 1982 — thence by descent to the current owner

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[brontë, emily] | wuthering heights, first american edition

A limited edition copy of Wuthering Heights, signed by the illustrator.<ul><li>Emily Brontë (English).</li><li>Illustrated by Balthus.</li><li>New York: The Limited Editions Club,&nbsp;1993.</li><li>Folio.</li><li>Part of an edition limited to 300 numbered copies, signed by Balthus.</li><li>Illustrated with 15 lithographs by Balthus on Japanese paper printed in brown-toned black ink.</li><li>Text set by Michael Bixler using Monotype Dante, printed on specially made off-white mold-made Arches paper with watermark.</li><li>Bound in the original gray-green morocco with title stamped in dark-brown, in publisher's cloth box.</li></ul> "What could they have had in common ‑- Count Balthazar Klossowski de Rola, the Paris‑born modern artist (better known as Balthus) who has filled scores of canvases with paintings of female nudes, and Mistress Emily Brontë, the mid‑nineteenth-century British spinster who seems never to have left the Yorkshire moors? Precisely, those moors. In his youth, the Count visited that wild landscape and, in 1933, made a series of drawings based on her gripping novel. Some say that he saw himself as Heathcliff. Sixty-one years later, and after creating a vast array of famous paintings, many reminiscent of those drawings, Balthus agreed in 1994 to have The Limited Editions Club present, for the first time in their destined context, the entire suite of fifteen drawings" (Publisher).

Wuthering Heights

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Type=Fine%2520Bindings%2520and%2520Sets" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">finely bound</a> and illustrated Haworth edition of works by the <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Bront%C3%AB+sisters&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Brontë sisters</a>.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 7 volumes.</li><li>The Life and Works of Charlotte Brontë and her Sisters. With Introductions to the Works by Mrs. Humphry Ward and an Introduction and Notes to the Life by Clement K. Shorter.</li><li>Charlotte Brontë (English).</li><li>Emily Brontë (English).</li><li>Ann Brontë (English).</li><li>Elizabeth Gaskell (English).</li><li>London:&nbsp;Smith, Elder, &amp; Co,&nbsp;1905-1914.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>Illustrated with frontispieces in each volume.</li><li>Full red morocco, spines gilt with raised bands, boards ruled in gilt, turn-ins gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, by Zaehnsdorf.</li></ul> An excellent set of these classics of world literature by the Brontë sisters: Wuthering Heights by Emily; Agnes Grey and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne; Jane Eyre, Villette, Shirley, and The Professor, by Charlotte; with the Poems of Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell; and Mrs. Gaskell’s Life of Charlotte Brontë.

Works of the Bronte Sisters, with The Life and Works of Charlotte Brontë and her Sisters

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