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[BRONTË (CHARLOTTE)] Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. Edited by Currer Bell, 3 vol., FIRST EDITION, Smith Elder, 1847
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[BRONTË (CHARLOTTE)]
Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. Edited by Currer Bell, 3 vol., FIRST EDITION, half-titles, bound without publisher's advertisements and Calcutta Review notice, slight soiling, some small areas of restoration in blank margins and numerous other nicks and tears repaired (those to first leaf of text in volume 1 and last leaf in volume 2 slightly affecting text), green straight-grained morocco by Lloyd, Wallis & Lloyd, sides with triple gilt rule borders, gilt panelled spines with repeated floral tool and raised bands, t.e.g, others untrimmed [Grolier English 83; Sadleir 346; Smith 2], 8vo (195 x 114mm.), Smith Elder, 1847
Footnotes
'I AM NO BIRD; AND NO NET ENSNARES ME; I AM A FREE HUMAN BEING WITH AN INDEPENDENT WILL' - FIRST EDITION OF CHARLOTTE BRONTË'S MASTERPIECE, HER FIRST PUBLISHED NOVEL AND ONE OF THE CORNERSTONES OF ENGLISH LITERATURE.
Witten in a ground-breaking first person narrative style, Charlotte Brontë's powerful novel, was something completely new in Victorian fiction, dealing with topics such as class, sexuality, religion, and feminism, its eponymous heroine a woman confronting men on equal terms.
This copy has all the flaws listed in Smith except for those on p.244 and 307 in volume three.