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Villette / by Currer Bell ...: PB 35-2021

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Villette / by Currer Bell ...

Maker(s)

Author: Brontë, Charlotte
Publisher: Smith, Elder, and Co
Bookbinder: Westleys & Co.

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Description

3 v ; 21cm (8vo).

"by Currer Bell ...
Published pseudonymously. By Charlotte Brontë.
Provenance: presented by Professor Sir Clifford Allbutt M.D., F.R.S. April 1918 (label). Thomas Clifford Allbutt MA MD CANTAB FRS Carr Manor Meanwood (bkpl.). Ms. note by Sydney Cockerell. Ms. inscr. on front free e.p. of vol. 1: 'Miss Wooler from her affectionate pupil C Brontë ... London Jany. 27 1853'. With cutting from Myers & Co. sales cat. (Jan. 1936) & a portrait of C. Brontë.
Binding: by Westleys & Co. (ticket). Brown cloth (19th century); g. lettering. Vols. 1 & 2: blind stamped; spine blind stamped.

Place(s) associated

  • London

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (1918-04) by Allbutt, Thomas Clifford

Dating

Production date: AD 1853 : London : Smith, Elder & Co. ... (pr. by Stewart and Murray ... ), 1853.

People, subjects and objects depicted

Identification numbers

Accession number: PB 35-2021
Primary reference Number: 307948
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Audit data

Created: Monday 21 February 2022 Updated: Monday 21 February 2022 Last processed: Wednesday 3 January 2024

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Manuscripts and Printed Books

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