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Rochdale man's incredible, £15m library few have ever seen saved from auction

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A unique collection of classic literature - including originals by Jane Austen and the Brontë sisters - amassed by a Rochdale businessman has been saved from going under the hammer after £15 million was raised to buy it.

The Honresfield Library was set up by mill-owner William Law in the 19th Century when he lived at Honresfield, a few miles from Haworth in Yorkshire, where the Brontë sisters famously wrote their novels.

The collection has been largely inaccessible for the last 80 years, its contents examined only by a few trusted scholars. READ MORE: Acid throwing victim 'may have known attacker' who left him seriously injured in hospital Now, a group set up to buy the contents has succeeded in its bid to stop the collection from being

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