JANE EYRE

First edition with these illustrations. Publisher's original navy blue cloth with gilt titles and decoration to the upper board and spine. 8vo. Illustrated with 8 full page black and white plates by John Jellicoe. Decorative title page printed in red and black. Top edge gilt. A very good or better copy, the binding square and firm, the spine tips and corners a little rubbed. The contents, with a little spotting to the prelims and light marks to the margins of a couple of pages are otherwise clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps.

A scarce and attractive illustrated edition of this classic of English literature. The illustrator John Timothy Jellicoe (1842-1914) studied art in London and exhibited his first drawings in 1865, thereafter at the Society of British Artists and at the Royal Academy. He was regarded as an exceptionally fine figure artist and often collaborated with other illustrators by drawing figures into their illustrations of buildings and places. In addition to the novels of Charlotte Brontë, Jellicoe was commissioned to illustrate works by Charles Dickens, Andrew Lang and G. A. Henty.