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~Original publisher's blind-stamped dark green cloth, gilt decor and lettering to spine (remainder binding). Mild wear to board edges; board corners slightly pushed in. Minor crumpling to base and top of spine. Hardly visible small damp-mark to rear board; two smaller marks to spine. Spine very slightly cocked. 8vo (14.5 x 20.2cm). Hinges sound. Original pale yellow endpapers just starting at front gutter and slightly cracked at rear gutter. Mild soiling to endpapers; pencil annots to inside front board. Pencil annot. to p. 14 of publisher's catalogue. Each vol. has separate dated title-page. Smith notes that 719 copies were bound up in this 1-volume remainder binding 'on or before 30 June 1859'. Charlotte Bronte's first-written and last-published novel, here in its posthumous first edition. Smith p. 162. ~Robust packaging. Overseas orders trackable on request. Size: viii, 294, (2), (iv), 258, (2), 8, 16pp.

'The Professor' was Charlotte Brontë's first novel, written before 'Jane Eyre' and published posthumously in 1857. It tells the story of a young Englishman who takes up a position at a boys’ school in Brussels.