Jane Eyre (From The Library of Sir Weetman Dickinson Pearson Baronet Viscount Cowdray)

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This is a Very Good Copy of this book in dark green cloth boards with bright and vibrant gilt title lettering to spine.This is Volume One from Seven of The Life and Works of Charlotte Bronte And Her Sisters with an Introduction to the works by Mrs Humphry Ward and and Introduction and Notes to The Life by Clement K Shorter.The binding remains firm with no hinge weakness,black matt endpapers are original and this copy bears the impressive Armorial bookplate of Sir Weetman Dickinson Pearson Baronet Viscount Cowdray of Cowdray Paddockhurst to the front pastedown.He was a building contractor and oil producer born on the 15th of July 1856 near Huddersfield. He attended a private school, Hallfield, in Bowling, Bradford, and at the age of thirteen went to Pannal College near Harrogate before joining his family?s firm.In 1875, three years after joining the firm, Pearson was sent on a tour to the US to seek new business. The trip was successful, and when his grandfather retired in 1879, Pearson was given his share of the business. He expanded out of the north of England, especially to London, where he moved the headquarters in 1884. Pearson became the sole partner in 1894.The firm he ran undertook major constructions, including in Milford Haven (1885?90), Southampton (1886?91), and Halifax in Nova Scotia (1886?9), as well as a contract to build the Hudson River tunnel connecting New York with Jersey City, and construction of the Grand Canal to drain the swampy plateau on which Mexico City stood.Pearson was elected Liberal MP for Colchester in 1895, but was frequently absent from parliament. For his various services, he was created baronet in 1894, and raised to the peerage in 1910 as Baron Cowdray, of Midhurst in Sussex.He was created a viscount in 1917. In 1920, he was elected lord rector of Aberdeen University, and in 1925 was made GCVO. On 1 May 1927, two days before he was due to become a freeman of Aberdeen, he died in his sleep at his home, Dunecht House in Aberdeenshire.The top edge of the book is in gilt with deckled page edges to the remainder of the page edges.There is just one tiny 2mm nick to the cloth at head of spine.The work is illustrated with 11 black and white plates with a portrait picture of Charlotte Bronte as frontispiece,facsimile of the title page of the First Edition of Jane Eyre,and with a further nine plates of other aspects associated with the life and background of the Brontes.The contents remain clean throughout apart from some foxing spots to the blank endpapers.There are NO other former names or inscriptions present.Charlotte Brontë was born in Thornton, Yorkshire, England as was the the third of six children to Patrick Brontë an Irish Anglican clergyman, and his wife, Maria Branwell. In April 1820 the family moved a few miles to Haworth,a remote town on the Yorkshire moors where Patrick had been appointed Perpetual Curate. This is where the Brontë children would spend most of their lives.This copy was acquired from a large and substantial collection of impressive titles relating to the works and history of this famous literary family.This would make a great addition to any serious Bronte collection particularly with the Viscount Cowdray Association and presence of his bookplate.8vo (xxxviii) 555pp + 4 pages of publisher adverts to rear Haworth Edition [1899].

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Titel

Jane Eyre (From The Library of Sir Weetman Dickinson Pearson Baronet Viscount Cowdray)

Verlag

Smith,Elder & Co, London

Erscheinungsjahr

1899

Sprache

Englisch

Einband

Hardcover

Zustand

Very Good

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No Jacket

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• LITERATURE