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London: Smith, Elder and Co, 1857. First Edition. Very Good. First edition, first printing. Two volumes, bound in publisher's original cloth patterned in blind with titles stamped in gilt on the spine. Very Good with light rubbing through at extremities, rubbing and fading to cloth. Scattered pencil notations to yellow coated endsheets, contemporary owner name to title pages and slight perfume odor to pages. A lovey copy of the Charlotte Bronte's first novel.

'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.