Wuthering heights. A novel (vol 3)
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: Wuthering heights. A novel (vol 3)
Other titles: Agnes Grey
Classmark: Blavatnik Honresfield Library BHL 10
Creator(s): Brontë, Emily (1818-1848)
Additional creator(s): Brontë, Anne (1820-1849) (Other); Brontë, Patrick (1777-1861) (Former owner); Brown, Martha (1828-1880) (Former owner); Blavatnik Honresfield Library (Former owner)
Publisher: Thomas Cautley Newby, publisher, 72, Mortimer St., Cavendish Sq
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1847
Language: English
Size and medium: 3 volumes
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/731458
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019897166005181
Description
First edition.
Vol I and II Wuthering Heights; Vol. III: Agnes Grey, a novel, by Acton Bell.
A number of printing errors in each volume, and misbound sections: vol 1: pp.273-280 / pp.201-208; vol 2: pp.393-394 / pp.399-400 / pp.397-398.
Publisher's [T. C. Newby] advertisements at the end of volume 3 dated November 1847, 4 pages.
Indexed in: Smith,
Indexed in: Wise, Bronte,
Indexed in: Sadleir,
Features
Leeds University Library copy at BHL 10 (vol 1): excerpt from twentieth-century newspaper/bookseller's catalogue listing items by Emily and Anne Brontë, including another copy of this title gifted by Patrick Brontë to Eliza and Martha Brown offered by Maggs for £15 5s [sold by Sotheby's to Maggs in 1899 as lot 134] pasted onto front pastedown; early twentieth century[?] MS note describing members of the Heaton family of Ponden [House] 1758-1898 and their connection to Patrick Brontë, and the inscription above the front door of Ponden House. See MS annotations in vol 1 of Wuthering Heights for suggested inspiration for character and setting in the novel; loose cutting of image of Arms of the Gild of Silk Mercers, Florence.
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at BHL 10: original maroon cloth, blind tooled, gold tooled title and volume on spine, spines slightly sunned [faded].
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at BHL 10: Given from the Blavatnik Honresfield Library by the Friends of the National Libraries, 2022. Small red catalogue label on front cover: x333 3 vols. Twentieth-century armorial bookplate on rear pastedown of each volume: The Honresfield Library [i.e. the private library near Littleborough, Rochdale, Lancashire created towards the end of the 19th century by William Law (c.1836-1901) and his brother Alfred Law (d.1913), Rochdale mill owners]. MS. inscription on front flyleaf of volumes 1 and 3: The gift of the Revd P. Brontë A.B. to Martha Brown [i.e. Reverend Patrick Brontë (1777-1861), and Martha Brown (1828-1880), housekeeper to the Brontë family]. Twentieth-century MS. annotations in pencil and one in ink on several pages of vol 1, including: Michael Heaton on page 5 [for Hareton Earnshaw], also page 72; Ponden [i.e. Ponden House] on page 98; and a quote from Bewick about the Dunnock on page 74. MS page references in pencil on rear flyleaves
of vol 1 and 2. These annotations in the same hand[?], as the loose note in ink about the Heaton family of Ponden and their connection to the Brontës.
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