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EB: Downey & Co. Very Good. 1901. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Downey & Co, London, UK. 1898-1901. 12 Volumes. Thornton Edition. Bound in green cloth with top edge gilt. Boards are lightly scuffed and worn with some wear present to the edges of the boards (light soil present from handling to the extremities). No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Set consists of: The Professor, Jane Eyre (in 2 Volumes) , Shirley (in 2 Volumes) , Vilette (in 2 Volumes) , Wuthering Heights, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (in 2 Volumes) , Agnes Grey, & 'Mrs Gaskell's Life of Charlotte Brontë', by E. C. Gaskell. The Brontës were a nineteenth-century literary family associated with the village of Haworth in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England. The sisters, Charlotte (1816 – 1855) , Emily (1818 – 1848) , and Anne (1820 – 1849) , are well known as poets and novelists. They originally published their poems… Read More

Edinburgh:: John Grant,, 1905, 1907.. Early Thornton Edition. Near Fine. A Near Fine set of the Thornton Edition. Octavo (5.5 x 8 inches). Green publisher's cloth with gilt Art Nouveau floral devices and lettering to spine. TEG, untrimmed. The 11 volume set of the novels in uniform condition with minor toning to prelims, boards lightly tipped, slight edge wear but firm. Small white mark to front board of Vol I of Wildfelll Hall, otherwise a nice 11 volume set of the 1907 edition with the Volume 12: Life of Charlotte Brontë by Mrs. Gaskell published in 1905 in uniform binding. Spine slightly darker than the other 11 volumes. All titles and half titles printed in red and black. Fully illustrated with engraved authors' portraits, prominent landscapes, town and village scenes and architecture from the text, MS facsimile pages. 1. Agnes Grey: With a Memoir of Her Sisters by Charlotte Brontë. (2), 301pp, frontispiece.2. Wuthering Heights: With a Preface by Charlotte… Read More

Edinburgh: John Grant, 31 George IV Bridge, 1924. Twelve vols. 8vo. xi, [5], 405, [1]; [6], 371, [1]; xvii, [3], 499, [1]; xi, [5], 378; [6], 458; [6], 471, [1]; xi, [5], 421, [1]; [6], 406; [4], 353, [1]; [4], 347, [1]; [4], 301, [1]; xviii, [2], 525, [1] pp. Half-titles & titles in red & black, all vols. w/ frontisp. (some sepia-tinted photogravures), plates. Uniformly bound in publisher’s green linen, decorated gilt spines & lettering (occasional shelfwear, slight rubbing, very slight bumping to some corners), w/ original d.j.’s, printed spine art to match the bindings (some minor chipping heads & feet of some spines, occasional closed tears, thumbing, dustsoiling), still a NF/VG set, partially uncut & unopened. An excellent Thornton Edition of the Bronte sisters’ opus of gothic novels, edited by Temple Scott, featuring the detailed biography of Charlotte Bronte by Gaskell, uncommon with all volumes in original dustjackets. Charlotte’s “Jane Eyre,” and Emily’s “Wuthering… Read More

Edinburgh: John Grant. 1924. Complete in twelve volumes. The 'Thornton Edition'. Octavo (21 x 15cm). Bound by J. May, London in half blue morocco ruled in gilt over grey cloth boards. Five raised bands, gilt ruled compartments and titles in gilt to the spines. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Titles pages printed in black and red. With a frontispiece illustration, and numerous black and white photographic plates of places associated with the authors throughout each volume. An excellent near fine set, the bindings square and firm with uniform fading to the spines. The contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. A very attractively produced edition and handsomely bound set. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.