Lot 53: [BRONTË, CHARLOTTE.]

JANE EYRE. AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY. EDITED BY CURRER BELL. LONDON: SMITH, ELDER AND CO., 1847
8vo (195 x 121mm.), first edition, 3 volumes, half-titles, publisher's 32pp. catalogue dated June 1847 and one leaf advertising The Calcutta Review at the end of volume 1, contemporary polished calf, spines in six compartments decorated in gilt, maroon and olive green morocco labels lettered in gilt, top edges gilt, dark blue endpapers, original reddish-brown cloth spines bound in at the end, bookplates removed, some slight spotting to endpapers (particularly volume 3), minor marks to binding, very slight edge-wear

Smith 2; Sadleir 346; Ashley I, p.72; Wolff 826; Tinker 379; Grolier English 83; Parrish pp.87-8