1924 Rare Book bound by Riviere - WUTHERING HEIGHTS by Emily Bronte. 1stED illustrated by Percy Tarrant.
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Author: Emily Brontë. (Preface and Memoir of Emily and Anne Brontë by Charlotte Brontë).
Title: WUTHERING HEIGHTS by Emily Brontë with sixteen coloured illustrations by Percy Tarrant.
Publisher: London, Calcutta, Sydney, George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1924. First illustrated edition by Percy Tarrant.
Language: Text in English.
Size: 9 " X 6 ".
Pages: 355 pages.
Binding: Attractive and very good, near fine, full red morocco leather binding with significant gilt tooling to spine by RIVIERE & SON (signed on the bottom of the first blank) (hinges fine) under a removable protective mylar cover. All edges gilt. An exquisite binding!
Content: Very good, near fine content (bright, tight, and clean - as shown).
Illustrations: Complete with the 16 wonderful full-page illustrations by Percy Tarrant.
The book: Attractive and wonderfully bound illustrated edition of Wuthering Heights -- a novel by Emily Brontë published in 1847 under her pseudonym "Ellis Bell". It is her only finished novel. Although Wuthering Heights is now a classic of English literature, contemporaneous reviews were deeply polarised; it was controversial because of its unusually stark depiction of mental and physical cruelty, and it challenged Victorian ideas about religion, morality, class and a woman's place in society. Wuthering Heights was influenced by Romanticism including the novels of Walter Scott, gothic fiction, and Byron, and the moorland setting is significant.
The author: Emily Jane Brontë (30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848) was an English novelist and poet who is best known for her only novel, Wuthering Heights, now considered a classic of English literature. She also published a book of poetry with her sisters Charlotte and Anne titled Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell with her own poems finding regard as poetic genius. Emily was the third-eldest of the four surviving Brontë siblings, between the youngest Anne and her brother Branwell. She published under the pen name Ellis Bell.
The illustrator: Percy Tarrant (1855–1934), was a British artist and illustrator. He was the father of fellow Illustrator, Margaret Tarrant.