Villette
BELL, pseud., Currer, [[Charlotte, BRONTE], ]
A New Edition. [Cheap Edition.]
BRIGHT COPY IN CONTEMPORARY BINDING
Published: Smith Elder & Co., 1860
Stock code: 14084
Price: £300.00
8vo., 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.
Following the withdrawal of the two-volume second edition for fear of libel in 1857, the work was first issued as a single volume in Smith Elder's 'Cheap Edition' series later in the same year. Smith records that this 1860 impression was issued without advertisements. Bright copy of an early [fifth/sixth?] edition. See Smith, pp.143-146; Wise, p.33.