1878 The Works of George Eliot Cabinet Edition Twelve Volumes

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Illustrated, Leather Binding, Signed Binding

Twelve of the 24 volumes. In uniformly bound straight grain morocco MacLehose, Glasgow bindings. The following volumes are present: I. Romola I II. Romola II III. Silas Marner, The Lifted Veil, Brother Jacob VI. Scenes of A Clerical Life VII. Clerical Life II XI. Felix Holt II XII. Middlemarch I XIV Middlemarch III XIX Jubal, Agatha, Armgart, How Lisa Loved The King, A Minor Prophet, Brother and sister, Stradivarius, A College Breakfast-Party, Two Lovers, Self and Life, Sweet Evenings Come and Go, Love, The Death of Moses, Arion, O May I Join The Choir Invisible. XXI Essays XXIV Life Of George Eliot Prior owner's bookplate to front pastedown, Robertson Buchanan Steward. Stewart served the marines for many years and founded a drapery business in the Cowcaddens as well as the Stewart & Macdonald warehouse on Buchanan Street, Glasgow. Stewart and Macdonald was established in 1826 and by the end of the 19th century it was exporting to the worldwide market. George Eliot was an English novelist, poet, journalist and one of the leading writers of the Victorian Era. It was a pen name for Mary Ann Evans, who used a male pen name in order for her works to be taken seriously.