Her Last Novel

The Professor by Currer Bell.

London: Smith and Elder, 1857.

Price: $4,500.00


About the item

First edition, with half-titles, 8 pages of ads for uniform edition of earlier works by the Brontes at end of vol. II. 2 vols. 8vo. Her Last Novel. 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. Very good plus, an attractive copy. Smith 7; Parrish, p 96; Wolff 827; Sadleir 347; Ashley I: 74.

Item #317289

Posthumously published, the same year as Mrs. Gaskell’s The Life of Charlotte Brontë.