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Lot 295

The Shakespeare Head Bront?.

Estimate: $600 - $800

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Bront? Anne; Charlotte; & Emily. The Shakespeare Head Bront?. Oxford: Basil Blackwell & Houghton Mifflin Co. (printed at the Shakespeare Head Press), 1931. 11 vols. Large Paper Edition, American issue. Of the 1000 copies printed, 500 were printed on large paper and reserved for the American issue; this being No. 289. Complete novels include The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, Shirley, Villette and The Professor. Publisher?s green cloth, spines with printed paper labels. Illustrated with 30 architectural and landscape views by Jack Hewer. 8vo. Pages untrimmed, a few signatures unopened. Spines sunned, occasional pale spotting or staining to boards, ownership signatures to few vols.; else clean and tight.