
2nd Imp of the 2nd Edition C1854-58 T. C. Newby, the publisher of the original three-volume 1st edition of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall in 1848, sold the rights of Anne Brontë’s second novel, in 1854, to Thomas Hodgson, who issued this posthumous second edition later that year in one volume and this subsequent reprint in the Parlour Library. In 1859 the plates were sold onto Smith Elder. The Parlour Library half-title and the leaf of publisher’s advertisements in the rear not present. Bound up with an early edition of Cheveley or A Man of Honour by Lady Bulwer Lytton. Bound up together in a Victorian three quarter leather and tooled binding. Hand marbled boards. The book is good++ and bright. Contents good. Contemporary Inscription.