NMLP P-038269 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-19

Agnes Grey

Anne Brontë (as 'Acton Bell') · Thomas Cautley Newby, London · 1847

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 individual books — are the rarity. No earlier or competing printing of the text exists.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-038269 for "Agnes Grey" by Anne Brontë (as 'Acton Bell') (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-038269, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).