BRONTË, Charlotte "Jane Eyre" [The Zodiac Press, 1968] Bayntun Fine Binding

BRONTË, Charlotte. Jane Eyre.

London: The Zodiac Press, 1968. 8" x 5.5", 452 pp. Finely bound by Bayntun in full green polished calf, covers ruled in gilt with gilt fillet borders, spine elaborately gilt in compartments with floral tools, red and blue leather spine labels lettered in gilt, all edges gilt, gilt turn-ins, decorative marbled endpapers. Binder’s stamp (“Bayntun Binder, Bath, Eng.”) to upper turn-in. A few light scuffs and surface scratches to the leather, consistent with careful handling; binding sound and square; text clean and unmarked. Near Fine.

A handsome modern fine binding of Brontë’s enduring novel, executed by one of England’s most respected twentieth-century binderies.