Bell, Currer, Ellis, and Acton (Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Bronte)
Poems
London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1846 (but 1848). First edition, second issue (as usual). 12mo. iv, 165, (1) pp.; errata slip bound in at front; without 16 pp. of ads found in some copies. Contemporary three-quarter green morocco over marbled paper-covered boards, stamped in blind and in gilt, boards and extremities rubbed; all edges trimmed; book-plate of James W. Hazlehurst on front paste-down. Smith 1, pp. 6-14; Parrish, p. 82

Originally published in May, 1846, by Aylott and Jones of London, only a few of the 1,000 printed copies were sold or distributed, with the remaining sheets and binding cases put into storage. In September, 1848, on the heels of the success of Jane Eyre, publisher Smith, Elder purchased the languishing stock. In October of that same year, they published this second issue with a new cancel title-page, but retained the original date. Only 39 copies of the first issue were sold or distributed, making it practically unobtainable today.

A handsome copy in a contemporary binding.