BRONTË (BRONTE), CHARLOTTE — Villette (Everyman's Library #351)

London / New York: Everyman's Library - J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. / E. P. Dutton & Co, Inc, 1992. Hardcover. Ex-library. A 1941 reprint of the 1928 issuance. An Everyman's Library edition of Charlotte Brontë's 1853 novel. The story is centered around the author's Lucy Snowe character, who travels to the fictional European city of Villette to teach children following a family disaster in England. Much of the story is similar to Brontë's own life, in which she endured the loss of her three siblings. Includes translations of French-language terms at rear of volume. With an introduction by May Sinclair. Entry 351 in Everyman's Library Fiction series, edited by Ernest Rhys. --- In EL binding style 3 with full carmine cloth-covered boards and gilt-stamped spine titling; blindstamped Eric Ravilious-designed 'shell' to cover and brown topstain. In dust jacket with Ravilious 'knot' to front panel. --- Evidence of former ownership by a lending library limited to front free endpaper sticker and slip pasted to rear paste-down. The book is otherwise clean and tightly-bound. Somewhat fragile jacket with a few small tears and chips, moderately darkened spine, else intact and wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; Ex-Library; 16mo (6 - 7 in. tall); xviii, 462, 16 (ads) pages. Very Good in Good dust jacket .