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A "lost library" of British literature, including rare handwritten poems by Emily Brontë and works by Robert Burns, is to be auctioned off at Sotheby's.
The contents of the Honresfield Library, which has re-emerged after almost 100 years in obscurity, will go up for sale at three separate auctions.
Emily's poems are expected to fetch somewhere between £800,000 and £1.2m.
A first edition of her famous novel Wuthering Heights could fetch between £200,000 and £300,000.
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image captionEmily Brontë's rare handwritten poems will be sold at Sotheby's
An annotated Brontë family copy of Bewick's History of British Birds - famously referenced in the opening pages of Jane Eyre by Emily's sister Charlotte - could go for between £30,000 - £50,000, estimates suggest.