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[Classic Literature] FINELY BOUND SET. Complete in six volumes. Small octavo (18 x 12 x 14cm), pp.xx; 457 [3]; pp.xxviii; 289 [3]; pp.xvi; 511 [3]; pp.xviii; 462 [2]; pp.xii; 548 [2]; pp.xii; 244 [2]. Each volume with a colour frontispiece by Dulac. Contemporary red half calf by BAYNTUN-RIVIERE of Bath, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spines, and marbled paper over boards. Top edges gilt, and machine-marbled endpapers. Presented in a matching cloth-covered slipcase. Gently sunned to spines, otherwise a crisp, attractive set showing minimal wear. Box also shows some minor wear and sunning. Very good.

Wuthering Heights is Emily Brontë's only novel. Written between October 1845 and June 1846, it was published in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell. The novel is set on the Yorkshire moors and follows the turbulent relationship between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, an orphan taken in by Catherine's father.