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Illustrated by F.H. Townsend with 16 black and white plates. 8vo. Bound c.2003 by Bayntun-Riviere in full maroon morocco, the covers with a gilt fillet border, the spine lettered in gilt with one line panels, decorative corner tools and tooled bands, hand-marbled endleaves, gilt edges.

Shirley is a social novel by English writer Charlotte Brontë, published in 1849. It was Brontë's second published novel after Jane Eyre (1847), and it is set in Yorkshire during the industrial depression of 1811–12.