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Author: CHARLOTTE BRONTË (Currer Bell), (Introduction by Mrs. Humphry Ward).
Title: Jane Eyre.
Publisher: London, Smith, Elder, & Co. 1899. The Haworth Edition.
Language: Text in English.
Size: 7 " X 5 ".
Pages: xlv-555 pages.
Binding: Attractive and very good, near fine, full Hermes red morocco leather binding with significant gilt tooling to spine by BAYNTUN-RIVIERE (signed on the top of the first blank) (hinges fine - as shown) under a removable protective mylar cover. All edges gilt. An exquisite binding!
Content: Very good content (bright, tight, and clean, small light abrasion on illustrations page list - as shown, very rare light foxing - as shown). 
Illustrations: Complete with the frontispiece portrait, the original title page, the illustration by Frederick Walker and the 8 photographs reproduction views.

The book: Attractive and wonderfully bound illustrated edition of Jane Eyre; originally published as (Jane Eyre: An Autobiography) -- a novel by English writer Charlotte Brontë, published under the pen name "Currer Bell", on 16 October 1847, by Smith, Elder & Co. of London. The first American edition was published the following year by Harper & Brothers of New York. Jane Eyre is a Bildungsroman which follows the experiences of its eponymous heroine, including her growth to adulthood and her love for Mr. Rochester, the brooding master of Thornfield Hall.
The novel revolutionized prose fiction by being the first to focus on its protagonist's moral and spiritual development through an intimate first-person narrative, where actions and events are colored by a psychological intensity. Charlotte Brontë has been called the "first historian of the private consciousness", and the literary ancestor of writers like Proust and Joyce.

The author: Charlotte Brontë (21 April 1816 – 31 March 1855) was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels became classics of English literature.