A Book of Ryhmes (the word rhymes is misspelt)[2] is one of six miniature books written by the teenage Brontë, forming part of her juvenilia.[1][3] Dated 17 December 1829,[4] it measures only 3.8 in × 2.5 in (9.7 cm × 6.4 cm).[1]
The book sold for $520 in an auction at Walpole Galleries in New York City in 1916 (equivalent to $14,560 in 2023).[1][4] The last of Brontë's miniature books to be owned by a private collector,[5] its location was subsequently unknown until April 2022 when it was announced that it would be for sale at the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair later that month.[6] It sold for $1.25 million (£983,500),[1] making it possibly the most expensive book ever sold, in terms of price per unit of surface area.[2]
The book was purchased by a British literary charity, the Friends of the National Libraries, which donated it to the Brontë Parsonage Museum.[1] The estate of T. S. Eliot and the Garfield Weston Foundation donated funds to the Friends of the National Libraries to assist in buying the book.[5] The principal curator of the Brontë Parsonage Museum, Ann Dinsdale, said that it was "...always emotional when an item belonging to the Brontë family is returned home and this final little book, coming back to the place it was written when it had been thought lost, is very special for us."[5] At the time that it acquired A Book of Ryhmes, the museum already had nine other miniature books made by the Brontë siblings, and expected to receive seven more from the Honresfield Library in the near future.[5]
The Book of Ryhmes has 15 pages with handstitched brown paper covers. It contains 10 poems.[1] The title page is inscribed "Ryhmes. Sold by Nobody. And printed by Herself".[4]
List of poemsedit
The contents of the book were listed by Brontë in her 1830 list of her work to date.[7] The text of the poems was unknown until the 2022 rediscovery of the book, having never been transcribed or summarised.[5]
"The Beauty of Nature"
"A Short Poem"
"Meditations while Journeying in a Canadian Forest"
"Song of an Exile"
"On Seeing the Ruins of the Tower of Babel"
"A Thing of 14 Lines"
"Lines written on the Bank of a River one fine Summer Evening"
^ abcdefgh"Charlotte Brontë's early Book of Rhymes sold for £1m". BBC News. 26 April 2022. Retrieved 7 August 2022.
^ abLouisa Young (7 August 2022). "Why Charlotte Brontë's tiny £1m pamphlet proves that little things mean a lot". The Guardian. Retrieved 7 August 2022.
^"News: Brontë Parsonage Museum to acquire Charlotte Brontë's A Book of Ryhmes". The Brontë Society. Retrieved 7 August 2022.
^ abcBrontë, Charlotte; Neufeldt, Victor A. (2015). The poems of Charlotte Brontë : A new text and commentary. p. 371. ISBN978-1-317-40067-7. OCLC 914472347.
^ abcdeMark Brown (25 April 2022). "Charlotte Brontë's $1.25m 'little book' of 10 poems returns home". The Guardian. Retrieved 7 August 2022.
^Debusmann Jr, Bernd. "Rare tiny Brontë book could set $1.25m sale record". BBC News. Retrieved 20 August 2022.
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