1890 Rare Victorian Book - Jane Eyre. An Autobiography by Currer Bell (Charlotte Brontë).
(Description)
Author: Currer Bell. (Charlotte Brontë).
Title: Jane Eyre. An Autobiography.
Publisher: London: W. Nicholson & Sons, Limited, no date (circa 1890).
Language: Text in English.
Size: 7.5" X 5".
Pages: 382 pages.
Binding: Attractive and good original full-cloth binding (hinges fine, overall slightly worn and scuffed - as shown, lower part of spine worn and frayed - as shown) under a protective removable mylar cover.
Content: Very good content (tight and clean, light foxing and staining - as shown, general toning to pages - as shown, gift note of a previous owner on the first endpaper - as shown).
Illustrations: Complete with the nice full-page frontispiece illustration.
Estimate: (Scarce with no or few other copies of this edition available for sale worldwide).
The book: Attractive and rare 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.