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Charlotte Brontë

The Professor

Smith and Elder

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The Professor, the author's first written novel, was published two years after the author's death in 1855.

  • Currer Bell [Charlotte Brönte] (English).
  • London: Smith and Elder, 1857.
  • 2 vols. 
  • 8vo. 
  • First edition, with half-titles, 8 pages of ads for uniform edition of earlier works by the Bröntes at end of vol. II. 
  • Contemporary half calf and marbled boards.
  • Bookplate of H. Morley Fletcher by John D. Batten, 1890.
  • Faint ghost of gift inscription to verso of half title.

Literature

Smith 7.

Parrish, p 96.

Wolff 827.

Sadleir 347.

Ashley I: 74.

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Language

English

Subject

English literature and history, Novels, Fine bindings, Literature, Women Writers

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