[Brontë, Charlotte.]

Estimate

2,000 - 3,000 GBP

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Description

The Professor, a Tale. By Currer Bell. Smith, Elder & Co., 1857
PAPER

8vo (193 x 124mm.), 2 volumes, first edition, half-titles in both volumes, without the advertisements at the end of volume 2, nineteenth-century half polished calf by E. Riley, spines in six compartments decorated in gilt, black and olive green morocco labels lettered in gilt, marbled boards and endpapers, top edges gilt, very slight spotting to endpapers, very slight wear to corners of binding

Literature

Smith 7; Sadleir 347

Catalogue Note

First edition of the author's first novel, published posthumously.