Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell [i.e. Charlotte, Emily and Ann Brontë.]
Brontë, Charlotte,1816-1855.
Dunlop, George,1842-1909,former owner.StEDNL
London : Aylott and Jones,
1846.
In a decorated wooden case, probably dating from the early 1900s.
With newspaper cuttings, bookseller's catalogue and four letters, including correspondence from the bookseller selling the book, asserting that this copy was originally owned by one of the Brontë sisters although there is no evidence of this on the book itself. The book was bequeathed to the Library by the late George Brown Dunlop (1876-11 October 1950) of Dunselma [house], Fenwick, Ayrshire. Dunlop was the proprietor of the Kilmarnock Standard newspaper, and was also an antiquarian, and a noted art collector. From the folder of the cuttings and letters etc., it is clear that it was George Brown Dunlop’s father, George Dunlop senior (1842-1909), who was also joint proprietor of the Kilmarnock Standard newspaper and a well-known bibliophile, who purchased it in 1897 from a London bookseller Walter Spencer of New Oxford Street.
In publisher's original cloth binding.