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[BRONTE, Charlotte (1816-1855)]. Jane Eyre. An Au

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London: Smith Elder, & Co., 1847. 3 volumes, 8vo (205 x 125 mm). Original grey-purple fine ribbed cloth, blocked in blind, by Westleys & Clark with binders stamp on rear paste-down, stamped in blind, gilt lettering to spines, housed in matching brown cloth slipcase by Rivière. Condition: occasional very light foxing; recased, some wear and repair to spines, slight scuffing. Provenance: contemporary ownership signatures to rectos of front endpapers; from Seven Gables Bookshop, May 1976. first edition, with advertisements in volume 1 dated June 1947. Charlotte Brontë's first novel and the first novel published by any of the Brontë sisters. This edition is believed to have had a print run of around 500 copies. Grolier English 83; Sadleir 346; Tinker 379; Wolff 826.(3)

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