BBC News highlights the amazing outcome of the Sotheby's auction
The Library of an English Bibliophile.
A first edition of the novel Wuthering Heights formerly owned by a Norfolk parson has been sold at auction for £163,250.
Described as "very rare" by London auctioneers Sotheby's, it was expected to fetch between £50,000 and £75,000.
The three-volume edition was once owned by Rev Nathaniel Micklethwait, who lived at Coltishall Hall.
There is no information about the buyer of the book, written by Emily Brontë in 1847.
Mr Mickelthwait's name was written in the book.
EDIT: Although it is known it was an US dealer.
But as you will recall,
Wuthering Heights wasn't the only Brontë book going under the hammer. Here are the rest of the results:
Lot 17 - The Tenant of Wildfell Hall: hammer price with buyer's price: 85,250 GBP (estimate: 60,000 - 70,000 GBP).
Lot 18 - The Professor: hammer price with buyer's price: 2,500 GBP (estimate: 2,000 - 3,000 GBP).
Lot 19 - Villette: hammer price with buyer's price: 9, 375 GBP (estimate: 2,500 - 3,000 GBP).
Lot 20 - Jane Eyre: doesn't seem to have been sold.
Lot 21: Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey: hammer price with buyer's price: 163,250 (see above) (estimate: 50,000 - 75,000 GBP).
EDIT: More places that echo this news:
Daily Mail,
Norwich Evening News,
Whitby Gazette,
IANS,
EDP24...
Categories:
Agnes Grey,
Brontëana,
Jane Eyre,
The Professor,
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall,
Villette,
Wuthering Heights
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