Think tinier than a playing card.
April 26, 2022: A tiny manuscript by then-teenage author Charlotte Brontë will be returned to the parsonage where she lived her entire life. Friends of the National Libraries (FNL), a British nonprofit, purchased the book, which contains Brontë’s only remaining unpublished poetry, for $1.25 million, and will donate it to the Brontë Parsonage Museum in Haworth, England, per a museum release. The article says you need a magnifying glass in order to read her poems. Read the Smithsonian Magazine article here.
Sold by James Cummins Bookseller, New York City at the Park Avenue Armory's 62nd Annual New York International Antiquarian Book Fair (NYIABF). I know him personally and have sold a few rare books to him and bought many from him in his NJ Shop. This is such an exciting find, isn't it?
4 comments:
This is so sweet!
So interesting! How fitting that this little book is going back to the Bronte Museum. Some things really do work out well!
Lisa D. -- I'm so glad we got to see this early work before it went home to the place where it was created. xo, Rosemary
Pam -- I agree. It's amazing that the Bronte Museum was able to raise the funds in two weeks so it could go back home. xo, Rosemary
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