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NY: Worthington Co., 1887. Hardcover. Good. Covers and spine fully intact. Green cloth boards with gilt to front and spine. Brown flowers and decoration to front and spine.

Complete six volume matching set. Book conditions from very good to near fine. Some shelf wear around edges. Pages are in excellent condition, No indication of publishing date.

John W. Lovell Company Green boards. All six volumes are in very good condition. No date.. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket.

NY: George Munro. Very Good+. N.D.. Hardcover. This is a bound accumulation of the appearances of Eliot's works, published in the Seaside Library magazine in the 1800's, and bound in a very nice three-quarter green leather book. Raised bands, gilt title. Slight rubbing to the edges, one small "ding" on the spine. The pages are very white & clean, with the exception of a stain on just a few in one spot. Some of the pages were trimmed right at, or just into, the text on the edge of the page. The magazine is not dated, but from the paper and type, dates from the 1880's. A nice period accumulation, of a magazine which is scarce in Its own right, in a binding which would cost hundreds to produce today. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall .

New York: John W. Lovell Six Volumes, circa 1900. Frontispieces. Brown-Gold 3/4 Leather, marbled boards.Five raised bands, gilt lettering, decorations on the spine. Labeled spines with fading to the bottom labels. There are light spots to the spines, minor scuffs to the extremities. The hinges are in excellent conditionContains Middlemarch, Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, Scenes From Clerical Life, Adam Bede, Daniel Deronda, Felix Holt, Poems, Spansh Gypsy, Romola, Theophrastus Such.. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo.

New York: Garretson, Cox & Company. Reissue. Half-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. Front hinge of second and sixth volumes just beginning to weaken,. Complete in eight volumes. 8vo. Half-leather, black and burgundy morocco spine labels, gilt titles and rules, marbled boards, endpapers, and edges, engraved frontispieces. 'George Eliot' was of course a pen name for Mary Ann Evans, who was among the most important authors of the Victorian era. Virginia Woolf called Middlemarch "one of the few English novels written for grown-up people." Includes: Adam Bede; Romola; Felix Holt: The Radical / Impressions of Theophrastus Such; Daniel Deronda; Scenes of Clerical Life / Silas Marner, The Lifted Veil, Brother Jacob; The Mill on the Floss; The Spanish Gypsy / The Legend of Jubal and Other Poems, Old and New; Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life.

New York: William L. Allison Company, 1890. Half-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. No date, circa 1890. Rear board of sixth volume repaired at joint, spines slightly faded, board edges lightly rubbed with tiny blemish to D of Deronda and light soil to top edge of the same volume. Complete in eight volumes. 8vo. Leather spines and corners, gilt titles, rules, and decorations in compartments, top edges gilt, marbled boards and endpapers. 'George Eliot' was of course a pen name for Mary Ann Evans, who was among the most important authors of the Victorian era. Virginia Woolf called Middlemarch "one of the few English novels written for grown-up people." Includes: Scenes of a Clerical Life: The Sad Fortunes of the Reverend Amos Barton, Mr. Gilfil's Love Story, Janet's Repentance [with] Silas Marner, The Lifted Veil, and Brother Jacob; Adam Bede; The Mill on the Floss; Romola; Felix Holt, the Radical [with] Impressions of Theophrastus Such; The Spanish Gypsy, The Legend of Jubal, and… Read More

New York: John W. Lovell Company. N.D.. Hardcover. All 6 volumes Very Good in boards. Light soiling on front and rear panel of all 6 volumes. Light shelfwear on spine heel of all 6 volumes. Front hinge cracked on "Scenes from Clerical Life, Adam Bede", "Felix Holt, Poems, Spanish Gypsy", and "Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner". Front hinge starting on "Middlemarch". Rear hinge starting on "Daniel Deronda". 1/2 closed tear on spine heel of "Middlemarch". Small closed tears on spine crown of "Felix Holt, Poems, Spanish Gypsy", "Daniel Deronda", Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner", and "Romola, Theophrastus Such". .

William Blackwood and Sons & Smith Elder (Romola only), 1879. First editions. Douglas Clan bookplate with family crest "Jamais Arriere" to each front pastedown, spines uniformly sunned a shade, overall near fine to fine with all hinges firm and internally clean and bright.. Eleven first editions of George Eliot uniformly bound deep turquoise by Brentanos, title, author and date stamped in gilt.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1908. Large paper edition of the works of George Eliot, with an autographed signed letter tipped in. Octavo, 25 volumes, bound in full morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, elaborate tooling to the front and rear panels, raised gilt bands, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, elaborately illustrated with tissue-guarded engravings including frontispieces in color. In near fine condition. An exceptional set. From Adam Bede to The Mill on the Floss and Silas Marner, Eliot presented the cases of social outsiders and small-town persecution. Felix Holt, the Radical and The Legend of Jubal were overtly political, and political crisis is at the heart of Middlemarch, in which she presents the stories of a number of denizens of a small English town on the eve of the Reform Bill of 1832; the novel is notable for its deep psychological insight and sophisticated character portraits. The roots of her realist philosophy can be found in… Read More