A beautifully custom-bound full leather first edition of the collected works of Patrick Bronte [1777-1861]. The father of the famed Bronte Sisters, and a prominent author and Irish Anglican minister himself, this is the first collected edition of his works.
Contents include: Cottage Poems; The Rural Minstrel; The Cottage in the Wood on the Art of Becoming Rich and Happy; The Maid of Killarney or Albion and Flora with Cursory Remarks on Religion and Politics; The Phenomenon or Account in Verse of Disruption of a Bog on Haworth Moors; A Sermon Preached in the Church of Haworth in Reference to the Earthquake, or Bog Disruption; The Signs of the Times - Some Political Indications of 1835; Paul Telltruth - Anonymous Controversial Tract; A Brief Treatise on the Best Time and Mode of Baptism in Answer to Peter Pontifex; A Funeral Sermon for the late William Weightman; Fugitive Pieces; Poem on Halley's Comet;
Plus: The Brontes of Ireland; Wuthering Heights; Patrick's Father; The Temperance Movement; Patrick's Father a Prodigy?; etc.
Turner, J. Horsfall [ed.]. Bronteana. The Rev. Patrick Bronte, A.B., His Collected Works and Life. The Works; and the Brontes of Ireland. Bingley. Printed for the Editor by T. Harrison & Sons. 1898. 304pp
Full calf, of the period, with morocco label on the spine and very subtle blind gold tooling. One abrasion across rear board. Leather slightly dulled. Marbled endpapers. Textually very good with the slightest of toning. Else superbly crisp.