First American edition. Frontispieces. Two volumes. 8vo. [2, publisher’s advertisements], viii, 285, [1, blank], 2 [publisher’s advertisements]; [2, publisher’s advertisements], viii, 269, [1, blank], 7 - 12 [publisher’s advertisements]. Original purple cloth, spines lettered in gilt, covers decorated in blind, new endpapers. New York, Appleton, 1857.
The first American edition of Gaskell’s famous biography of Charlotte Brontë, originally published in London earlier in the same year.
A very good set, with fading to spine and partly to boards, endpapers sympathetically renewed.
