Jane Eyre : an autobiography /

Jane Eyre : an autobiography /

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Main Author: Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855. (Author)
Corporate Author: Stewart and Murray (Printer)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : Smith, Elder, and Company, Cornhill, 1847.
(London : Stewart and Murray, Old Bailey)
Notes:First edition of the author's first published novel.
Includes half-titles and publisher's catalogue of 32 p. dated Oct. 1847 at end of v.1.
First ed., cf. Sadleir 346.
On title page editor's name precedes "In three volumes."
Printer's name from title page verso and colophon.
In each volume the title-page is preceded by a half-title reading "Jane Eyre. Vol. I[-III]."
Currer Bell is the pseudonym of Charlotte Brontë.
First edition Cf. Sadleir.
Errors in paging: volume 3, pages 32 and 225 incorrectly numbered 23 and 252 respectively.
Volume 1 includes 32-page publisher's catalog at end, dated Oct. 1847, preceded by inset fly-title dated June 1847, and followed by 1 leaf of thicker paper advertising the Calcutta review.
Signatures: Vol. 1: [A]² B-U⁸ -- Vol. 2: [A]² B-U⁸ -- Vol. 3: [A]² B-U⁸ X⁴.
UVa Library copy: Without the 32 pages publisher's advertisements at end of volume 1. Binding: In original brown cloth, covers decorated in blind with triple line border enclosing decorative trellis-like border. Spines ruled and decorated in blind, and ruled, numbered, and lettered in gilt; cream-colored end papers. Each volume housed in a snap-closure, green cloth covered box.
Description:3 volume ([4], 304, 32; [4], 304; [4], 311, [1] pages) ; 21 cm (8vo)
Subjects:
Governesses > Fiction.
Fathers and daughters > Fiction.
Mentally ill women > Fiction.
Charity-schools > Fiction.
Married people > Fiction.
Country homes > Fiction.
Young women > Fiction.
Orphans > Fiction.
Charity-schools.
Country homes.
Fathers and daughters.
Governesses.
Married people.
Mentally ill women.
Orphans.
Young women.
England > Fiction.
Angleterre > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
England.
Fiction.
Bildungsromans.
Love stories.
Three deckers > England > London > 19th century.
Publishers' advertisements > England > London > 1847.
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