[Brontë (Emily and Anne)], "Ellis and Acton Bell". Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey, 1 vol. as issued, second English edition, first issue with title dated 1850, lacking half-title and advertisement f. and publisher's catalogue, front free endpaper with later ownership inscriptions (abrasion and few small holes where one removed), divisional title to Agnes Grey with contemporary ownership name to verso, few short marginal tears, p.27 & 131 into text with tiny loss to one letter, p.318 some old tears and paper repairs affecting text with loss to few words, the occasional small stain, some soiling, gutter slightly cracked at points, upper hinge cracked, 19th century ?library cloth, spine lettered in gilt and with some fraying to ends, spine and upper cover slightly faded, few small and light stains, corners bumped and rubbed, [Smith 3 pp.63-69], 8vo, Smith, Elder and Co., 1850.

⁂ Around September 1850, Smith, Elder and Co. wrote to Charlotte to suggest that they take over publication of Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey from Thomas Cautley Newby. Charlotte agreed and included a biographical preface regarding Ellis and Acton Bell in order both to clear up the confusions surrounding the authorship of the Brontë novels as well as to reveal the true identity of the Bells.