1860 The Mill on the Floss

Description

First Edition, Publishers' Original Binding

The first edition, first state, with no advertisement leaf to Volume I. In the Carter binding variant B. Baker & Ross A5.1.a1.

With a sixteen page publisher's catalogue to the rear of volume III. Retaining the original half titles.

Following the lives of siblings Maggie and Tom Tulliver over a period of fifteen years, this is one of Elliot's most celebrated novels, frequently cited as one of the more tragic in the English language. The main focus of the novel is the relationship between the two siblings, and also with the relationships - both platonic and romantic - of Maggie, the protagonist.

With raised adhesive residue to each pastedown, and binder's label to rear pastedown of volume I.

The first edition of this important Victorian era novel from Eliot, an early example of psychological and domestic fiction, set in Lincolnshire in the 1830s and 1840s.