THE NOVELS OF THE BRONTË SISTERS. Comprising Jane Eyre; Shirley; Villette; The Professor; Wuthering Heights; The Tennant of Wildfell Hall; Agnes Grey.

Complete in six volumes. Contemporary brown half leather with five raised bands and gilt titles to the spines, the compartments with gilt floral motifs. Marbled endpapers. Top edges gilt. Illustrated with a total of 60 colour plates throughout by Edmund Dulac. A very good or better set, the bindings square and firm with some rubbing at the spine tips, corners and raised bands and minor bumping to a few corners. The contents, with offsetting from the marbling to the versos of the free endpapers, are otherwise clean throughout and without previous owner's inscriptions or stamps. An attractive set.

Edmund Dulac's illustrated editions of the novels of Jane, Emily and Anne Brontë are described by Brontë biographer Nick Holland as "perhaps the most beautiful set of Brontë books of them all". As his first commission the set launched Dulac's illustrious career in 1905, soon before he became one of the most sought after names in the 'golden age' of illustration, providing artwork for numerous lavishly produced volumes of fairy tales.