The first American edition of Jane Eyre, bound from the wrappers with three other novels by the publisher. Octavo. 174 pp. Printed in two columns. All bound in the publisher’s green cloth binding, with gilt titles to spine. 22pp. of publisher’s adverts to rear. 
 
A very good copy, the binding rather worn, with splits to the joints and some old repairs.
 
The first American edition of Jane Eyre, issued as number 109 in Harper's "Library of Select Novels", and published the year after the first edition. This issue, in a cloth publisher’s binding is not recorded by Smith, but the bibliography makes clear that an edition with an 1848 Harpers title page is the first edition.
 
PROVENANCE: John Cunliffe Pickersgill-Cunliffe (1819-1873), his bookplate to front pastedown, “Pickersgill Cunliffe” in pencil to front free endpaper; pencil inscription of “Anna Pickersgill” to the title page of Harold.
 
Bound with:
The Heretic. Translated From The Russian Of Lajetchnikoff By Thomas B. Shaw (New York, Harper And Brothers, 1844) 150pp.
Chatsworth; Or The Romance Of A Week. Edited By The Author Of Tremaine... (New York, Harper And Brothers, 1844) 122pp.
Harold, The Last Of The Saxon Kings By The Author Of Lucretia... (New York, Harper And Brothers, 1848) 217pp.