Details

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Fiction [Browse]

Contains

Brontë, Anne, 1820-1849. Agnes Grey. [Browse]

Notes

• First edition. Wise Brontë II, 1.
• Vol. III: Agnes Grey, a novel, by Acton Bell.
• Princeton copy 2: T.p. punctuation in Vol. II varies. Dark reddish brown diagonal rib cloth, covers and spine blocked in blind. Wuthering Heights is complete in two vols. The title page of Vol. III reads: Agnes Grey. A Novel, by Acton Bell, Vol. III. London: Thomas Cautley Newby, 1847.
• Princeton copy 1: Lacks v.3: Agnes Grey, by Acton Bell [i.e. Anne Brontë].

Binding note

Princeton copy 2: Dark reddish brown diagonal rib cloth, covers and spine blocked in blind.

Provenance

• Princeton copy 2: "New Works by Popular Authors," Nov. 1847, 4 p. at back of Vol. III. Vol. III, Agnes Grey, is Anne Brontë's own copy, with corrections in pencil in her hand on 81 pages. Inscription on t.p. of each vol.: E. & F. Merrall.
• Princeton copy 1 Inscription: "Mrs R Philips [Kieyboker] a beautiful work & one that she [...k] admires."

References

Princeton copy 2: Wainwright (Parrish), Brontes, 105

Other title(s)

Agnes Grey.

OCLC

635761

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