[Literature] Bell, Currer (Charlotte Bronte)
Shirley. A Tale
London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1849. In three volumes. First edition. 8vo. 16 pp. publisher's ads wanting in first volume. Contemporary three-quarter blue calf over marbled paper-covered boards, red morocco spine labels, stamped in gilt, boards, extremities, and joints rubbed; matching marbled edges and endpapers; scattered foxing to text; book-plate of Charles Conway on front paste-down of each volume. Parrish, p. 93; Sadleir 348; Smith 5; Symington, pp. 25-26

First edition of Charlotte Bronte's second novel published after Jane Eyre.