May 18, 2016 - Sale 2416

Sale 2416 - Lot 32

Price Realized: $ 422
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
[BRÖNTE, CHARLOTTE]. Shirley. A Tale. By Currer Bell. 3 volumes. 8vo, contemporary 1/2 leather over marbled boards, spines gilt-titled, front cover of vol. 1 detached, boards scuffed; occasional staining to contents, terminal blank of vol. 3 with early owner's manuscript notes on verso; housed in full morocco clamshell case with gilt inscription. London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1849

Additional Details

first edition, early state with 3 page advertisement for the third edition of Jane Eyre at end of volume 3; volume 2, p. 304 correctly numbered but with the error in line 1 corrected; and lacking 16 page publisher's catalogue in volume 1. Parrish p. 93; Sadlier 348.