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The Life of Charlotte Bronte
by Gaskell, Mrs. (Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson Gaskell)
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good with No dust jacket as issued
- Seller
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Palatine, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
London: Smith, Elder & Company. Good with No dust jacket as issued. (1889). Reprint. Hard Cover. Quarter bound in publisher's green cloth over marbled boards, gilt lettering on black panel on spine. Illustrated with frontispiece portrait of Bronte with facsimile signature. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, née Stevenson (1810-1865), often referred to simply as Mrs Gaskell, was a British novelist and short story writer during the Victorian era. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata of society, including the very poor, and are of interest to social historians as well as lovers of literature. Mrs. Gaskell was a close friend of Charlotte Bronte, and was asked by Charlotte's father, Patrick Bronte, to write this biography of his daughter. . Edges mildly worn, part of paper covering on front board torn away, frontispiece loose, else fine; unmarked, tight, and square. GOOD. . Frontispiece. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall. 448 pp .
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- Bookseller
- Round Table Books, LLC
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 27287
- Title
- The Life of Charlotte Bronte
- Author
- Gaskell, Mrs. (Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson Gaskell)
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with No dust jacket as issued
- Edition
- Reprint
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Smith, Elder & Company
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- (1889)
- Keywords
- Biography;, Charlotte Bronte;, Literary Biography;, Mrs. Gaskell;
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Cloth
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
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- Facsimile
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- Marbled boards
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Poor
- A book with significant wear and faults. A poor condition book is still a reading copy with the full text still readable. Any...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
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