[Rarebooks] FS: VILLETTE by Currer Bell (NY, 1853)

[Michael John Thompson]

BRONTE, Charlotte [writing as Currer Bell, pseudonym].

VILLETTE by Currer Bell (pseudonym) (bound with) ZAIDEE: A Romance 
(by Mrs. Oliphant) (bound with) "MOREDUN": A Tale of the Twelve 
Hundred by Sir Walter Scott.

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 329 & 331 Pearl Street, 
Franklin Square. 1853 First American Edition.

Octavo. Contemporary half leather over pebbled cloth boards, the 
spine with raised bands and titled in gilt. Issued as Harper's 
Library of Select Novels, No. 182. Original paper wrappers lacking, 
bound together with Zaidee: A Romance (anonymous, but by Mrs. 
Oliphant) (Boston: Jewett, 1856) and "Moredun", A Tale of the Twelve 
Hundred and Ten by Sir Walter Scott (NY & Boston: Fetridge, 1855). . 
Published simultaneously with cloth edition. Bound in with [Mrs. 
Oliphant] and Walter Scott: Moredun: A Tale of the Twelve Hundred and 
Ten (1855). 184 pp (Villette) + 178 pp (Zaidee) + xv + 126 pp 
(Moredun). Covers and back a bit rubbed, slight wear to extremities, 
inner front hinge reinforced internally with old tape. Printed in 
double columns. Pages crisp, lightly age toned, scattered 
foxing/spotting. Overall, a very good copy.

Charlotte Bronte's fourth novel, first issued earlier in the same 
year in a London edition (Smith, Elder, 1853; 3 Volumes). "After an 
unspecified family disaster, the protagonist Lucy Snowe travels from 
England to the fictional French-speaking city of Villette to teach at 
a girls' school, where she is drawn into adventure and romance." The 
first American edition was issued in both cloth and wrappers simultaneously.

$350.00

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