Shirley by Charlotte Bronte
1902. No edition remarks. 509 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth covered boards with gilt. Black and white illustration plates by F.H. Townsend. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Front free endpaper with small corner missing. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is dulled but remains brighter on front.