An early essay / by Charlotte Brontë ; with an introduction by M.H. Spielmann ...

Accession number: 
PML 131265.2
Author: 
Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855.
Published: 
[s.l. : s.n.] , 1924.
Description: 
13, 3 p. (final blank leaf) ; 21 cm.
Credit: 
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes: 

"Reprinted from the Publications of the Brontë Society, part xxxiv., 1924."
"Only thirty copies printed separately"--T.p. verso.
An essay on Millevoye's elegy, La chute des feuilles, with Professor Heger's corrections and Observations.
Library's copy has list of all recipients, written by Spielmann on t.p. verso, with information on binding; also manuscript copy of C. Brontë's French text (not in her hand), with annotations, and proofs of Spielmann's text marked for printer.
Entire bound vol. consists of 4 publications (GNR 714.1-4); manuscript correspondence between Spielmann and the Brontë Society; photographs of portraits by John Tonkin of C. Brontë's mother, grandmother Anne, and aunt Elizabeth Branwell; acknowledgements from libraries of publications sent by Spielmann; and, various clippings, including a portrait of Spielmann.

Provenance: 
M.H. Spielmann (bookplate, signature); Gordon N. Ray.
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