$750
Estimate: $300 - $500
The Collection of Victor Niederhoffer, Part III
Auction: January 30, 2020 10:00:00 AM EDT
London: Smith, Elder, 1849. In three volumes. First edition. Small 8vo. Without half-titles, as issued; lacking ads in first volume; ads for The Third Edition of Jane Eyre on verso of last text leaf (X7) in third volume. 20th-century three-quarter mottled brown calf over marbled paper-covered boards, extremities occasionally scuffed, burgundy and green morocco spine labels; darkening to edges of first and last leaves in each volume, narrow band of dampstaining at fore-edge of title-page in first volume, scattered spotting to text. Sadlier 348; Smith 5.
"...Charlotte Bronte's most social novel, intended in her own words to be 'unromantic as Monday morning,' and one of its recurrent themes is its plea for more useful occupations for women..." (The Oxford Companion to English Literature, p. 900).