1858 Wuthering Heights by Ellis Bell & Agnes Grey by Acton Bell (Bronte) / Extremely Early Copy Published Just 11 Years After The Original

A very early and extremely scarce 1858 edition of Emily Bronte’s classic novel Wuthering Heights printed here together with Anne Bronte's Agnes Grey. Originally published in December 1847 by Smith, Elder and Co., Ltd of London, in three volumes using Brontes' pseudonyms Ellis and Acton Bell respectively. This copy was published just eleven years later in 1858, ten and eight years after the deaths of Emily and Anne. It was entitled a "New Edition" also by Smith, Elder and Co. with the aim of producing a one-volume, more affordable version for a wider audience. (The first 1847 edition had been published in a three-volume triple decker). It is exceptionally hard to find a copy of Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey in this edition today and if you can find one they usually have not survived very well. This copy - at 166 years old 
 - inevitably has some wear but it remains good. In fact it is one of the best condition copies that I have so far come across in this orange edition. It has been re-backed and so is strongly and tightly bound.

Inside the pages are in good condition with some scattered spotting, the occasional brown blemish and folded corner. Has toning along the closed top edge. The book opens and closes with publisher's adverts to the endpapers and with a four-page catalogue at the back. Has a small pencilled number 6 on the front advert paste down and a neatly inked name along the top of the title page. Usually these early editions have become cocked (slanted) with time, but this has not happened to this copy which remains tight and square.

Bound in the original orange boards with black titles. The black has rubbed away in places and there is rubbing/fraying to the cloth at the corners of the boards. With some slight darkening to the centre of the boards from handling and also around the edges. Has a couple of creases to the front board including one across the top front corner (see close-up photo). With a very faint small red ink spot on the front fore-edge. The colour and titles on the spine have faded in comparison to the front and back. With some fraying to the spine ends. 

Your 1858 copy of Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey will be wrapped with great care in tissue and ribbon* and sent well packaged with tracking and full insurance. I am always happy to add a gift card with a message to the parcel.

AT TIME OF LISTING I also have a copy of Jane Eyre in the matching edition.

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