Bronte, Charlotte — The Professor

Edinburgh, John Grant, 1905. Hardcover. Green cloth boards with gilt spine lettering; bw illustrated frontispiece with protective guard sheet; xi, 378 pp; 4 unnumbered leaves of plates. Orphan William Crimsworth, raised by aristocratic uncles and educated for the clergy, rejects that life for work at his brother's Yorkshire mill. Treated badly there, William seeks his fortune in Brussels, where he finds work as a schoolteacher and falls in love. Good+ (ex-library with labels and stamps on spine, block, inside front and rear covers and title page verso. Light shelfwear to boards and block. Light age toning but pages are otherwise clean.) .