Shirley
BELL, pseud., Currer, [[Charlotte, BRONTE], ]
A New Edition. [Cheap Edition.]
BRIGHT, CRISP COPY OF THE FIRST CHEAP EDITION
Published: Smith Elder & Co., 1857
Stock code: 14085
Price: £210.00
8vo., First Edition thus, contemporary signature on title; strongly bound in contemporary half calf, pebble-grain dark green cloth boards, back with four raised bands ruled in gilt, second compartment with red leather label ruled and lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled with a lozenge in blind, red sprinkled edges, green endpapers, corners and joints mildly worn and rubbed else a very good, bright, clean copy.
The work was first issued as single volume in the Uniform Edition of 1852 [dated 1853]. This is the first appearance in the Cheap Edition, with missing points after 'Shirley' in the headlines of pp. 68; 202. Bound as often without advertisements. See Smith, pp. 117-120; Wise, p.26.