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The professor : a tale

Title: The professor : a tale / by Currer Bell, author of "Jane Eyre," "Shirley," Villette," &c. ; in two volumes.
Author: Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855
Publication: London : Smith, Elder & Co., 1857.

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Found In

Charlotte Bronte papers (OCoLC)1343966342

Description

2 volumes; 21 cm

Summary

Charlotte Brontë' s first novel, based upon her experiences in Brussels as a language student and teacher. Much of the novel was later reworked into 'Villette'. It was published posthumously by approval of Arthur Bell Nicholls, who reviewed and edited the novel.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Romance fiction.
Fiction.
Blocked bindings.

Indexed In (note)

Smith, W.E. The Brontë sisters
Sadleir, M. XIX century fiction
Wolff, R.L. Nineteenth-century fiction

Location of Other Archival Materials (note)

Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.

Provenance (note)

Copy in Berg Coll 23-4: with the bookplate, "Ex libris, Freelands, W.T.H. Howe'' front pastedown.

Binding (note)

Copy in Berg Coll 23-4 bound in publishers' purple morocco grain cloth blocked in blind; yellow endpapers binder's ticket rear pastedown: "Bound by Westleys & Co., London".
Pforzheimer copy: Inserted at the end of the volume is a 16-page "Catalogue of new and standard works, published by Smith, Elder & Co.," dated June, 1857.

Call Number

Pforz (Brontë, C. Professor. 1857. 1st ed. London)

LCCN

06017948

OCLC

550541

Author

Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855, author.

Title

The professor : a tale / by Currer Bell, author of "Jane Eyre," "Shirley," Villette," &c. ; in two volumes.

Imprint

London : Smith, Elder & Co., 1857.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Indexed In:

Smith, W.E. The Brontë sisters, 7

Sadleir, M. XIX century fiction, 347

Wolff, R.L. Nineteenth-century fiction, 827

Location of Other Archival Materials

Copy in Berg Coll 23-4 separated from Charlotte Bronte papers (Berg Coll MSS 186119); Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.

Provenance

Copy in Berg Coll 23-4: with the bookplate, "Ex libris, Freelands, W.T.H. Howe'' front pastedown. NN

Binding

Copy in Berg Coll 23-4 bound in publishers' purple morocco grain cloth blocked in blind; yellow endpapers binder's ticket rear pastedown: "Bound by Westleys & Co., London". NN

Local Note

Copy in Berg Coll 23-4 includes ALS from Charlotte Brontë [to William S. Williams], dated 5 November 1846, signed Currer Bell, tipped in between flyleaf and half-title; as well as envelope from London addressed to Howe, with a postmark of 2 March 1924.

Copy in Berg Coll 23-4 has bookseller's label: "W.H. Dalton, Bookseller and Stationer, 28 Cockspur St., Charing Cross" front pastedown

Copy in Berg Coll 23-4 includes volume one only.

Binding

Pforzheimer copy: Inserted at the end of the volume is a 16-page "Catalogue of new and standard works, published by Smith, Elder & Co.," dated June, 1857. NN

Local Note

Pforzheimer copy: With pencil signature "John Terry" to free front end-paper. -- Two volumes in one bound in the publisher's remainder binding of grey-purple morocco cloth, spine lettered in gold "The / Professor / By / Currer Bell;" with the binder's ticket of Westleys & Co., London. -- Purchased by Carl H. Pforzheimer at the William T. Emett sale, October 1918.

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