BRONTE, C. JANE EYRE, 1847, FIRST EDITION, 3 VOLUMES

8vo, 3 volumes, FIRST EDITION, half-titles, without the publisher's advertisements,  light brown half calf, with Lord Houghton’s armorial wheat sheaf stamp in gilt on upper cover, spine gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges red, browning, boards soiled with abrasions, restoration to spine label of Vol III, spines sunned, bumped

stamp on binding of Richard Monckton Milnes, first baron Houghton (1809-1885); his son Robert Milnes, marquess of Crewe (1858-1945), bookplate; by descent to his daughter Mary, duchess of Roxburghe

Smith 2; Wise 3

Condition is described in the main body of the catalogue, where appropriate.
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First edition of the author's first published novel.