BRONTE, Charlotte (author). Barnett FREEDMAN (illustrator). Jane Eyre. London; Collins. 1955

8vo.; publisher’s terracotta cloth-backed pictorial cloth boards, vertical gilt rules, spine panelled and lettered in gilt; top edges blue, decorative endpapers and prelims; with 16 full-page coloured lithographs throughout by Barnett Freedman; a very good copy with a touch of fading to spine and free from inscriptions.

First U.K. edition illustrated thus; previously published by The Heritage Press in the U.S. in 1942; issued without a dustwrapper. Here without the drab card slipcase, which is frequently discarded.

Barnett Freedman (1891-1954) was one of the foremost mid-century lithographers. His work for this English classic is widely praised for capturing the intense, haunting, and Gothic nature of the text.