1885 Rare Victorian Book - JANE EYRE by CHARLOTTE BRONTË.
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Author: CHARLOTTE BRONTË.
Title: Jane Eyre.
Publisher: Chicago and New York, Belford, Clarke & Co., 1885.
Language: Text in English.
Size : 7.5 " X 5 ".
Pages: 389 pages.
Binding: Attractive and good original decorated cloth binding (hinges fine, overall slightly worn and scuffed - as shown, title on spine faded) under a protective removable mylar cover.
Content: Very good content (tight and clean, some light foxing).
Illustrations: Complete with the frontispiece illustration.
The book: Attractive Victorian edition of Jane Eyre (originally published as Jane Eyre: An Autobiography) -- a novel by English writer Charlotte Brontë, published under the pen name "Currer Bell", on 16 October 1847, by Smith, Elder & Co. of London. The first American edition was published the following year by Harper & Brothers of New York. Jane Eyre follows the experiences of its eponymous heroine, including her growth to adulthood and her love for Mr. Rochester, the brooding master of Thornfield Hall.
The author: Charlotte Brontë (21 April 1816 – 31 March 1855) was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels became classics of English literature.