The Professor. To which are added the Poems of Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell, Now First Collected. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1875. Pp, 436. A good copy bound in half calf, and marbled boards, with marbled endpapers and edges. With gift inscription to second endpaper, dated 1876.

This was the first novel written by Charlotte Brontë’ but after it was rejected by several publishing houses, Brontë shelved the novel in order to write her masterpiece ‘Jane Eyre’ (1847).

The novel was published posthumously in 1857.