2 Anne Brontë (as 'Acton Bell') first editions are documented on this shelf, from Agnes Grey (1847) to The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848) across 2 different publishers. Each linked guide gives the points of issue that separate a true first printing of that Anne Brontë (as 'Acton Bell') title from later printings and book-club copies — the publisher and year to expect, the number-line or edition-statement conventions, and the tells that show up in online listings.

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Agnes Grey — 1847 · Thomas Cautley Newby, LondonThe true first is volume III of the Newby three-decker issued December 1847, in which Wuthering Heights by "Ellis Bell" fills volumes I-II and Agnes Grey fills volume III. Volume III has its own title page: "Agnes Grey. A Novel, by Acton Bell, Vol. III. London: Thomas Cautley Newby, 1847"; the Princeton Parrish copy collates 1 preliminary leaf and 363 pages. A four-page publisher's advertisement leaf headed "New…. Confirmed: there is no separate first edition of Agnes Grey. The true first is physically the third volume of Newby's 1847 Wuthering Heights three-decker, so it is almost never found alone, and a stray volume III on the market is a broken set rather than a self-contained first. Circulating libraries lent the volumes singly and later sold them off singly, which is why complete three-volume sets — not the…. Not applicable — the book predates book-club publishing. The standing "first thus" trap is Smith, Elder's 1850 one-volume "Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey. A New Edition Revised" (xxiv, 504 pp.), printing Wuthering Heights at pp. [1]-296 and Agnes Grey at pp. [297]-468 and adding Charlotte Brontë's "Biographical Notice of Ellis and Acton Bell" dated 19 September 1850 plus her "Editor's Preface". It is the first….
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall — 1848 · Thomas Cautley NewbyThree volumes, published by Newby around 1 July 1848 'by Acton Bell'. The first issue lacks the author's preface; Newby printed only part of the agreed run and issued the remainder with a cancel title and Anne's newly written preface as the 'second edition' in mid-August 1848. First issue therefore has no preface; the second-edition state carries the preface 'To the Second Edition' (dated 22 July 1848) in which…. The UK Newby 1848 three-decker is the true first. Presence or absence of Anne's preface distinguishes the second-edition state from the first issue. Sadleir considered it the scarcest of the Brontë sisters' first editions. Editions or issues carrying Anne's defensive preface 'To the Second Edition' are the second edition state or later, not the first issue.

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