More Brontë lots at the historical Sotheby's auction that will take place next December 15th. Besides a Charlotte Brontë manuscript, Ellen Nussey's copies of the Brontë novels are also auctioned:

• Lot 41 Wuthering Heights. A Novel by Ellis Bell and Agnes Grey. A Novel by Acton Bell. London: Thomas Cautley Newby, 1847. Provenance Probably presented by the author's sister Charlotte in or before January 1849 to their close friend Ellen Nussey, ownership signature ("E Nussey") on front free endpaper of volume 3 (Agnes Grey) and references in The Letters of Charlotte Brontë, ed. M. Smith; given by Ellen in May 1889 to Sir George John Armytage, 6th baronet of Kirklees (Armytage bookplate and additional printed leaf, c.1889, with full provenance, signed by Ellen Nussey, bound in at the front of each volume); thence by descent.
• Lot 36 The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. By Acton Bell. London: T.C. Newby, 1848 Provenance Presented by the author on 8 January 1849 to Ellen Nussey, inscription on front endpaper; given by Ellen in May 1889 to Sir George John Armytage, 6th baronet of Kirklees (Armytage bookplate and additional printed leaf, c.1889, with full provenance, signed by Ellen Nussey, bound in at the front of each volume); thence by descent.
• Lot 39 Villette by Currer Bell.Smith, Elder & Co., 1853 Provenance Presented by the author near the time of publication to her lifelong friend Ellen Nussey, presentation inscription in the hand of Ellen Nussey on front free endpaper; given by Ellen in May 1889 to Sir George John Armytage, 6th baronet of Kirklees (Armytage bookplate and additional printed leaf, c.1889, with full provenance, signed by Ellen Nussey, bound in at the front of each volume); thence by descent
• Lot 44 The Life of Charlotte Brontë. Smith, Elder & Co., 1857 Provenance Presented by the author to Ellen Nussey, presentation inscription in the hand of the recipient on front free endpaper of volume 1; given by Ellen in May 1889 to Sir George John Armytage, 6th baronet of Kirklees (Armytage bookplate and additional printed leaf, c.1889, with full provenance, signed by Ellen Nussey, bound in at the front of each volume); thence by descent.

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