‎"GASKELL, E.C.‎
‎The Life of Charlotte Brontë, Author of ""Jane Eyre"", ""Shirley"", ""Villette"", &c. Copyright Edition. In Two Volumes. 2 Vols. - [THE FIRST BIOGRAPHY OF BRONTË]‎

‎Leipzig, Tauchnitz, 1857. Small 8vo. Bound with both original front wrappers in a later (ab. 1900) green full cloth w. gilt leather title-label to spine. Some brownspotting. W. half titles. VIII, 314"" VIII, 298 pp.‎

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‎First Tauchnitz edition of the first biography of Charlotte Brontë by the important English novelist of the Victorian era, the author of ""Mary Barton"" and ""Cranford"", and a close friend of Charlotte Brontë. This edition appeared in the same year as the first edition (London, 1857), in the series ""Collection of British Authors"".‎