Senior Book Specialist Adam Douglas presents this first edition set of Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë.
First edition of one of the keystone books for any collection of 19th-century literature, Charlotte Brontë’s first published novel and the first published novel by any of the Brontë sisters.
Published at 31s. 6d. on 19 October 1847, in an edition of 500 copies, her novel followed the unsuccessful publication of Poems by the three sisters in May 1846, and the rejection of her first novel The Professor.
In this copy the publisher’s catalogue is dated October 1847, while others have June 1847. There is no priority between them; both were issued at the same time.
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