Title: [Works, comprised of 8 first editions in 15 volumes, uniformly bound] Author: Eliot, George Place Edinburg & London Publisher: William Blackwood & Sons Date: 1858-1885 Description: 8 works in 15 volumes, comprising: Scenes of Clerical Life. 2 volumes. 1858. * The Mill on the Floss. 3 volumes. 1860. * Silas Marner. 1861. * Felix Holt: The Radical. 3 volumes. 1866. * The Spanish Gypsy: A Poem. 1868. * Impressions of Theophrastus Such. Printed note regarding delay in publication due to "domestic affliction of the Author" laid in. 1879. * Essays and Leaves from a Note-Book. (Stain to half-title with repaired hole.) 1884. * George Eliot's Life as related in Her Letters and Journals. Arranged and edited by her friend J.W. Cross. 3 volumes. 1885. Together, 8 works in 15 volumes. 19.5x12 cm. (7¾x4¾"), modern full brown calf, leather spine labels, new endpapers; all but the last 2 volumes of The Mill on the Floss have the original cover and spine cloth bound in at rear. First Editions. Selection of works in first edition by the popular and influential English Victorian author Mary Anne Evans, who chose a male pseudonym so her writings would be taken seriously. The spines on Felix Holt are misdated 1861. Lot Amendments Condition: A few with light dampstaining to earlier contents, many with rippling from dampness; very good. Item number: 214752
Title: [Works, comprised of 8 first editions in 15 volumes, uniformly bound] Author: Eliot, George Place Edinburg & London Publisher: William Blackwood & Sons Date: 1858-1885 Description: 8 works in 15 volumes, comprising: Scenes of Clerical Life. 2 volumes. 1858. * The Mill on the Floss. 3 volumes. 1860. * Silas Marner. 1861. * Felix Holt: The Radical. 3 volumes. 1866. * The Spanish Gypsy: A Poem. 1868. * Impressions of Theophrastus Such. Printed note regarding delay in publication due to "domestic affliction of the Author" laid in. 1879. * Essays and Leaves from a Note-Book. (Stain to half-title with repaired hole.) 1884. * George Eliot's Life as related in Her Letters and Journals. Arranged and edited by her friend J.W. Cross. 3 volumes. 1885. Together, 8 works in 15 volumes. 19.5x12 cm. (7¾x4¾"), modern full brown calf, leather spine labels, new endpapers; all but the last 2 volumes of The Mill on the Floss have the original cover and spine cloth bound in at rear. First Editions. Selection of works in first edition by the popular and influential English Victorian author Mary Anne Evans, who chose a male pseudonym so her writings would be taken seriously. The spines on Felix Holt are misdated 1861. Lot Amendments Condition: A few with light dampstaining to earlier contents, many with rippling from dampness; very good. Item number: 214752
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