Shirley. A Tale. A New Edition. by Currer Bell / Bronte. Charlotte - 1887

London: Smith, Elder, & Co., Waterloo Place, 1907. Later Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 7 " X 5 . Spine notes author as C. Bronte. Title page identifies the author as Currer Bell. Charlotte's sisters, Emily and Anne went by the pen names Ellis and Acton Bell respectively. Book has dark green boards with title/author in small gilt title box at head of spine. Top edge gilt. Book is slightly cocked, extremities bumped and scuffed, Contents p. intact but torn. Printed by Spottiswoode and Co. Ltd. Includes 6 pp. of Smith Elder offerings. Bookseller's Inventory # 102371.

Smith Elder,, 1857. 8vo., contemporary signature on title; strongly bound in contemporary half calf, pebble-grain cloth boards, back with four raised bands tooled in gilt, second compartment with red leather label ruled and lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled with a lozenge in blind, red edges, green endpapers, corners and joints mildly worn and rubbed else a very good, good, tight copy. The work was first issued as single volume in 1852. Nice copy of an early [fifth/sixth?] edition. See Wise, p.26.