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Gaskell, E. Life of Charlotte Bronte. Smith, Elder & Co., 1857. 8vo, 2 volumes, half-titles, with 5 pp. newspaper article on the 'Death of Currer Bell' pasted down between half-title and title page of vol I., [with, bound at the back of vol. II.] John Skelton ("Shirley"), 'Charlotte Bronte', Fraser’s Magazine for Town and Country, Vol. 55, 1857; and W. P. P., Jottings on Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell. Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1856, [also with, loose in vol II.] manuscript poem “This last day of November…” on Bretton Park, Wakefield headed paper
each volume uniformly bound black half calf with Lord Houghton’s armorial wheat sheaf stamp in gilt on upper cover, spine gilt , marbled endpapers, all edges red, minor browning, with abrasions to covers, some soiling to spines, bumped (4)