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BRONTE, CHARLOTTE, EMILY AND ANNE Novels of the Bronte SistersThe Full Brontë BRONTË, Charlotte, Emily, and Anne. Novels of the Sisters Brontë. Edited by Temple Scott. Edinburgh: John Grant, 1924. Thornton Edition. Twelve octavo volumes. Frontispieces and plates. Title-pages printed in red and black. Bound by Zaehnsdorf in contemporary three-quarter green calf over green cloth boards ruled in blind. Spines decoratively tooled in gilt in compartments, two red morocco lettering labels, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Spines uniformly and attractively lightly sunned. With the Armorial bookplate of Cecil Pembrey Grey Wakely on the front pastedown of each volume. A finely bound and very attractive set of this beautifully printed edition. Thornton, a village on the outskirts of Bradford, West Yorkshire, is best known as being the birthplace of the Brontes. "Patrick Bronte, his wife Maria and their two children, Maria and Elizabeth moved to the parsonage at Thornton Bradford on the 15th May 1815. They stayed there until 1820, moving to the parsonage at Haworth. Charlotte (1816), Emily (1818), Anne (1820) and Branwell (1817) were all born there" (www.haworth-village.org.uk/brontes/thornton).
Offered for US$ 7500.00 by: David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB) - Book number: 01288