THE FINE STOCKHAUSEN-EWING COPY
Villette
Smith, Elder, & Co., 1853.
First edition. Three volumes. Original publisher's brown bevelled cloth titled in gilt to the spines and with blind border and decoration to the boards. 12pp of terminal adverts to volume one in the earliest state, dated January 1853. A fine set, very clean and crisp with the front hinge starting and owner's initial to each endpaper. An exceptional set.
The fabulous Stockhausen-Ewing copy of the author's third novel, a semi-autobiographical account of her time spent at finishing school in Brussels.
PROVENANCE: William E. Stockhausen (his sale, Sotheby's, November 1974); Douglas C. Ewing (bookplate to front pastedown, his sale, Christie's April 1978).
Stock ID: 44244
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