The rest of the auction

The Young Men's Magazine manuscript was not the only Brontë item in last Thursday's Sotheby's auction:

Lot 41
Wuthering Heights. A Novel by Ellis Bell and Agnes Grey. A Novel by Acton Bell. London: Thomas Cautley Newby, 1847.
8vo (194 x 120mm.), 3 volumes, first edition, Ellen Nussey's copy with her ownership signature on front endpaper of volume 3 ("E Nussey")
Estimate 70,000-100,000 GBP
Lot sold
157,250 GBP

Lot 36
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. By Acton Bell. London: T.C. Newby, 1848
12mo (201 x 120mm.), 3 volumes, first edition, second issue (so-called "second edition"), presentation copy inscribed by the author to the Brontës' great friend Ellen Nussey ("Presented to Ellen Nussey by her affectionate friend A. B. January 8th 1849")
Estimate 30,000-50,000 GBP
Lot sold
32,450 GBP

Lot 39
Villette by Currer Bell.Smith, Elder & Co., 1853
8vo (195 x 124mm.), 3 volumes, first edition, presentation copy from the author to her lifelong friend Ellen Nussey, inscription in recipient's hand on front free endpaper ("E Nussey from the author").
Estimate 6,000-9,000 GBP
Lot sold
15,000 GBP

Lot 44
The Life of Charlotte Brontë. Smith, Elder & Co., 1857
12mo (200 x 124mm.), 2 volumes, first edition, presentation copy from the author to Charlotte's Brontë's lifelong friend Ellen Nussey with inscription, probably in publisher's or editor's hand, on front free endpaper ("From the author").
Estimate  4,000-6,000 GBP
Lot sold
15,000 GBP

Lot 38
Shirley. A Tale. By Currer Bell. Smith, Elder & Co., 1849
8vo (194 x 120mm.), first edition, Ellen Nussey's copy. Estimate 3,000-5,000 GBP
Lot sold
6,000 GB Lot 40

The Professor, A Tale. By Currer Bell. Smith, Elder & Co., 1857
8vo (193 x 126mm.), 2 volumes, first edition, Ellen Nussey's copy.
Estimate  3,000-4,000 GBP
Lot sold
10,625 GBP
Lot 42

Brontë, Rev. Patrick
Collection of Seven Works in Five Volumes
The Rural Minstrel: a miscellany of descriptive poems, 1813; The Cottage in the Wood; or the Art of becoming rich and happy, 1818, second edition; The Maid of Killarney; or, Albion and Flora: a modern Tale.... ,1818; Cottage Poems, 1811,  A Sermon preached in the Church of Haworth, on Sunday, the 12th...September, 1824, in reference to an earthquake... , 1824; The Phenomenon; or an account in verse, of the extraordinary disruption of a bog..., 1824; A Funeral Sermon for the late Rev. William Weightman..., 1842. Estimate 2,500-4,000 GBP
Lot sold
8,125 GBP
    
Jane Eyre: An Autobiography.  By Currer Bell,  Smith, Elder And Co., 1848  8vo (194 x 121mm.), third edition, Ellen Nussey's copy.
Estimate: 2,500-3,500 GBP
Lot sold
8,125 GBP

Collection of 22 Works by and about the Brontës
Estimate: 1,500 - 2,000 GBP
Lot sold
2,750 GBP