1899 Rare Illustrated Edition - JANE EYRE by CHARLOTTE BRONTË (Currer Bell).
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Author: CHARLOTTE BRONTË (Currer Bell), (Introduction by Mrs. Humphry Ward).
Title: Jane Eyre illustrated with photogravure portraits and views.
Publisher: New York and London, Harper & Brothers Publishers, no date (circa 1899). The Haworth Edition.
Language: Text in English.
Size : 8.5 " X 5.5 ".
Pages: xxxv-555 pages.
Binding: Attractive and good full leather binding signed and dated September 8th, 1914 by The Booklovers Shop in Cleveland (hinges scuffed but tight - as shown, overall slightly worn and scuffed - as shown) under a protective removable mylar cover. Upper edge gilt.
Content: Very good content (bright, tight, and clean, ex-libris of Adrian Ettinger on the first endpaper - as shown).
Illustrations: Profusely illustrated with photogravure portraits and views.
The book: Attractive Illustrated 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.