Burnside Rare Books

Jane Eyre

Bell, Currer [Pseudonym of Charlotte Bronte]

Boston: Wilkins, Carter & Co., 1848.

First American book edition, preceded by a double-column edition in wraps. 483 pp., advertising leaf tipped to blank page before title page. Bound in publisher's blindstamped gray-brown diaper cloth lettered in gilt on spine, yellow coated endpapers. Near Fine with lean to spine, light staining to cloth, and moderate rubbing to extremities. Ownership signature dated 1849 to front free endpaper, foxing throughout. Smith p. 48. Item #140949599

Price: $7,800