Books

Two volumes bound in 3/4 dark red leather over cloth-covered boards, binding signed "Bayntun, Bath", top page edges gilt; Bound with both half-titles, First Editions, First issues with all points called for; 2-page publisher's book advertisement for Mrs. Gaskell's "Life of Charlotte Bronte" at end of Volume I; two sets of publisher's ads at end of Volume II: "Uniform Edition of the Works of Currer Bell", no date, 8 pages and "New and Standard Works published by Smith, Elder & Co." dated November, 1858, 16 pages. Set is FINE condition, without fault, maybe very slight tiny rubs at high points of the leather binding.

'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.