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Jane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte

Publication Date: 1923
Publisher: Leon Pichon
Book Price: $3,000.00
Shipping: US$ 10.82
Bookseller: Heldfond Book Gallery, Ltd. ABAA, ILAB
(San Anselmo, CA, USA)

This spectacular edition was limited to only 460 numbered copies of which this is number 38. Illustrated with 17 full page lithographs by Ethel Gabain. Folio (11" x 15"). Text in English. Spectacularly bound in full tri-gilt ruled, straight grain morocco. Tri-gilt ruled spine compartments. Gilt ruled raised bands. Gilt titles. Extremely elaborate gilt tooled turn-ins with brown moire insets. Marbled endsheets. t.e.g. This highly prized edition of Bronte's classic was originally commissioned by a prominent French collector. Most desirable were the 17 lithographs by the English artist Ethel Gabain (1883-1950). One of the few women of her generation to be able to make a living as a lithographer, Gabain and her husband, the well-known English print maker John Copley, lived for some years in Italy where both were inspired to do some of their finest work- With this edition of Jane Eyre renowned to be her most illustrious. Fluid and beautifully executed, Gabain's lithographs have a distinctive cachet which lend themselves most perfectly to Bronte's exquisite and evocative prose. Truly a most inspiring production. List of illustrations inserted loose at front. The most insignificant of occasional rubbing to covers. A patch or two of occasional textual offset. A fine, bright, exquisitely crisp copy.

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