Emily Brontë · 1847
Most copies don't say which Wuthering Heights you are getting: the 1847 first edition, or the 1850 version Charlotte Brontë revised after her sister's death. This page says where the publisher does, and sorts the rest by how they are made and what they are good for.
Penguin Clothbound Classics
Foil-stamped cloth, coloured endpapers and a ribbon, with Pauline Nestor's introduction and notes, for $27.
Norton Critical Edition
The 1847 first-edition text, revised footnotes, Charlotte's 1850 preface, Emily's poems and contemporary reviews.
Oxford World's Classics
Under $7 for a carefully edited text with the 1847 punctuation, plus John Bugg's introduction and notes.
Macmillan Collector's Library
A small clothbound hardback with gold-foiled edges and a ribbon marker.
Folio Society
Rovina Cai's eight colour illustrations, Patti Smith's introduction, buckram and a slipcase.
DK Classics
Foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges and a silk ribbon, for $26.
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Sewn pages open flat and stay in. Glued pages crack with age.
Acid-free stock does not yellow. Opaque stock hides the next page.
Size, line spacing and margins decide whether you finish it.
Cloth over boards outlasts paper over boards, which outlasts paper.
Ribbon, slipcase, illustrations, introduction, notes.
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A facsimile of the 1847 first edition in its two volumes, with Emily's own copy of the sisters' 1846 Poems.
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