Lot 18: [BRONTË, CHARLOTTE.]

[BRONTË, CHARLOTTE.] THE PROFESSOR, A TALE. BY CURRER BELL. LONDON: SMITH, ELDER & CO., 1857 8vo (192 x 123mm.), 2 volumes, first edition, small embossed circular blind-stamp with eagle on title pages, half-titles in both volumes, 8pp. advertisement for the Uniform Edition of the Works of Currer Bell at the end of volume 2, followed by 16pp. catalogue dated June 1857, original dark grayish purple morocco cloth, covers elaborately decorated in blind with floral patterns enclosed by rectangular and diamond-shaped borders, spines with similar patterns and lettered in gilt, yellowish-coated endpapers, binder's ticket at the end of volume 1 (Westleys and Co.), preserved in matching folding cloth box, spines somewhat faded and minor cracking to joints of volume 1 but otherwise a near fine copy

Smith 7; Sadleir 347

A. Edward Newton, bookplates; the sale of his Collection of Books and Manuscripts, Parke-Bernet, New York, 14-16 May 1941, lot 251; Alfred Knight, bookplates