Including Views of places described in the Works, reproduced from Photographs specially taken for the purpose by Mr. W. R. Bland, of Duffield, Derby, in conjunction with Mr. C. Barrow Keene, of Derby, Medallists of the Royal Photographic Society.
Introductions to the Works are supplied by Mrs. HUMPHRY WARD,
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An Introduction and Notes to Mrs. Gaskell’s “Life of Charlotte Brontë” by Mr. CLEMENT K. SHORTER, the eminent Brontë authority.
CONTENTS OF THE VOLUMES:
1. JANE EYRE. By Charlotte Brontë. With a Photogravure Portrait of Charlotte Brontë, from a Drawing by G. Richmond, a Photogravure of Rochester and Jane Eyre, from a Water-colour Drawing by Frederick Walker, A.R.A.; a Facsimile of the Title-page of the first edition, and 8 Full-page Illustrations.
2. SHIRLEY. By Charlotte Brontë. With a Facsimile of the Title-page of the first edition, and 10 Full-page Illustrations.
3. VILLETTE. By Charlotte Brontë. With a Photogravure Portrait of M. Heger, Facsimiles of Title-page of the original edition and of a page of the original MS., and 8 Full-page Illustrations.
4. THE PROFESSOR, by Charlotte Brontë, and POEMS, by Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë, and the Rev. Patrick Brontë, &c. With Facsimiles of the Title-pages of the first editions, and 8 Full-page Illustrations.
5. WUTHERING HEIGHTS. By Emily Brontë. AGNES GREY. By Anne Brontë. With a Preface and Biographical Notice of both Authors by Charlotte Brontë. With a Portrait of Emily Brontë, Facsimiles of the Title-pages of the first editions, and 8 Full-page Illustrations.