The Life of Charlotte Bronte
GASKELL, Mrs. E[lizabeth] C.
[Fifth? Edition.]
BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN PUBLISHER'S BINDING
Published: Smith Elder & Co., 1862
Stock code: 51651
Price: £295.00
8vo., Fifth? Edition, with engraved title-vignette; original yellow cloth printed in black, uncut, expertly recased, a well-preserved, bright, clean, crisp copy.
With publisher's advertisement on front paste-down, 2pp catalogue at end and rear endpaper advertisements. Gaskell's standard 'life' was first published as two volumes in 1857; the subsequent controversy resulted in the work's through revision for the third edition later in the same year. This is almost certainly the fifth edition, published in the format of the seven-volume Cheap Edition of the Bronte novels. In this issue the first four volumes, together with the second edition of the Poems, are advertised on the final leaf, and the series as a whole is printed on the rear cover. VERY SCARCE IN THE ORIGINAL BINDING. Smith, pp.40-41; Wise, pp.219-220 .