Lot 525: JANE EYRE. AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY. EDITED BY CURRER BELL. LONDON: SMITH, ELDER AND CO., 1847

8vo, first edition, 3 volumes, half-titles, without the publisher's advertisements at the end of volume 1, modern full crushed green morocco gilt by Bayntun Riviere, new marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, preserved in slipcase, some minor browning An unusually clean copy of the author's powerful and enduring novel, the inspiration behind countless further novels, literary and stage works since and the basis for many film adaptations and reinterpretations, by classic directors such as Orson Welles, Franco Zefferelli and Jane Campion.