[Brontë, Charlotte.]

8vo (193 x 123mm.), first edition, without the publisher's catalogue at the end of volume 1, nineteenth-century half polished calf, spines in six compartments decorated in gilt, black and olive green morocco labels lettered in gilt, marbled boards and endpapers, top edges gilt, minor spotting to leaves at beginning and end

Smith 6; Sadleir 349

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First edition of the author's final novel, highly prized by modern critics for its sophisticated narration and ambiguity.