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Lot 69
Sale 1097 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
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Nov 8, 2022
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Nov 9, 2022
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[BRONTE, Charlotte (1816-1855)]. Villette. London: Smith, Edler & Co., 1853.
3 volumes, 8vo (180 x 114 mm). (Lacking half-titles and terminal advertisements, some occasional spotting and soiling.) 20th-century quarter calf gilt (a touch of wear to extremities).
FIRST EDITION of Villette, a reworking of Bronte's first novel, The Professor, which was continually rejected by publishers. According to Virginia Woolf, Villette "is her finest novel. All her force, and it is the more tremendous for being constricted, goes into the assertion, 'I love. I hate. I suffer.'" Sadleir 349.
The Library of John Leonard Gillis Sold to Support the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto
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