[BRONTE, Charlotte (1816-1855), Emily (1818-1848), and Anne (1820-1849)]. ISHERWOOD, M.E. Bradshaw. The Bronte Birthday Book. Containing Extracts For Every Day In The Year From The Works of The Sisters Bronte. London: Henry J. Drane, no date, [but ca. 1899 or later].
16mo. Lined pages not filled in. Portrait frontispiece of Charlotte Bronte. Padded blue leather, stamped in gilt, all edges gilt (extremities lightly worn). Provenance: contemporary gift inscription mounted to front free endpaper, "to S.H. Quinney, with every good wish and fondest love from Ada 1902."
A VERY SCARCE BRONTE RELATED PUBLICATION. Biographer John A. Symington lists this title with a different imprint dated 1899 (p.155), and the British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books lists one published in red pictorial cloth dated 1900. This copy is possibly an unrecorded variant.
This lot is located in Philadelphia.