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    By George Eliot
    Edinburgh and London   William Blackwood and Sons
    8.5" by 6" [3], vi, 550; vii, [1], 568; vii, [1], 604, [2]; [6], 451; [6], 363; [4], 487; [6], 607; [6], 588; [8], 463; vi, 457pp
    A smart library set of the popular works of George Eliot, one of the most important authors of the Victorian age. Illustrated throughout.
    By George Eliot

    1901 The Works of George Eliot

    Edinburgh and London   William Blackwood and Sons
    8.5" by 6" [3], vi, 550; vii, [1], 568; vii, [1], 604, [2]; [6], 451; [6], 363; [4], 487; [6], 607; [6], 588; [8], 463; vi, 457pp
    A smart library set of the popular works of George Eliot, one of the most important authors of the Victorian age. Illustrated throughout.
    £750.00
    : 20kgs / : 923P40D
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    Description

    Fine Binding, Illustrated, Leather Binding

    Complete in ten volumes.

    The Library Edition by William Blackwood.

    A collection of the best known novels by George Eliot.

    George Eliot was the pseudonym used by the writer Mary Ann Evans. She published under a male name to escape the preconceived ideas about women's fiction during the era, becoming one of the best known Victorian writers. Many believe that her novel 'Middlemarch' is the greatest novel in the English Language. 

    Volume I, 'Adam Bede', illustrated with a frontispiece. Bound without the half-title.

    Volume II, 'The Mill on the Floss', illustrated with a frontispiece. 

    Volume III, 'Romola', illustrated with a frontispiece. 

    Volume IV, 'Scenes of Clerical Life', illustrated with a frontispiece. 

    Volume V, 'Silas Marner', illustrated with a frontispiece. Including 'The Lifted Veil' and 'Brother Jacob'.

    Volume VI, 'Felix Holt', illustrated with a frontispiece. 

    Volume VII, 'Middlemarch', illustrated with a frontispiece. 

    Volume VIII, 'Daniel Deronda', illustrated with a frontispiece. 

    Volume IX, 'The Spanish Gypsy etc', illustrated with a frontispiece. 

    Volume X, 'Theophrastus Such etc', illustrated with a frontispiece.

    Gift inscription to the recto of the front blank of 'Adam Bede', "Angela Cicely Mary Acland, from Helen Seymour, Aug 26th 1910".

    Condition

    In a half crushed morocco binding with cloth to the boards. Externally, smart, with only a few very light marks. Spines are very lightly faded. Very small chip to the head of the spine of 'Romola'. Gift inscription to the recto of the front blank of 'Adam Bede'. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean with the occasional scattered spot.

    Near Fine

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