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First edition, second issue as usual, with the cancel title page, this an attractive copy in the original cloth. The first issue is extant in tiny numbers - only 39 of the 1,000 copies printed by Aylott and Jones were sold or otherwise dispersed - and is now virtually unobtainable. These poems entailed the first book publications of each of the Brontë sisters. The book's initial failure on publication in May 1846 was reversed following the success of Jane Eyre, which was published in October 1847. The unsold stock of Poems was then bought by Smith, Elder & Co. in September 1848, and reissued the following month with a cancel title page, but retaining the original date. The collection contains 19 poems by Charlotte Brontë ("Currer"), and 21 each by Emily ("Ellis") and Anne ("Acton"). Octavo. Original green embossed cloth by Westleys & Co., London (their ticket to rear pastedown), spine lettered in gilt, pale yellow coated endpapers. Spine faded and a little frayed at head and foot, a couple of faint marks to covers, extremities bumped and rubbed, small hole to rear free endpaper, some browning on pp. 32-33, contents otherwise clean. A very good copy. Smith I; Wise 2.

**Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell** is a collection that includes poetry by Emily Brontë, published under her pseudonym 'Ellis Bell'. The collection features poems by Emily and her sisters Charlotte ('Currer') and Anne ('Acton'). Although initially not successful, it marks an important example of their collective literary endeavors.