Mary Anne Evans served as one of the prominent writers of the Victorian era under the name George Eliot, believed to be used to have her work taken seriously and hide her private life. Her famous works include Middlemarch, Silas Marner, and The Mill on the Floss. Her works are almost entirely set in her contemporary, provincial England and are lauded for their psychological and social insight and use of realism. Many of her works feature outsiders, social reform, and the effects of politics on small-town life in England. Like many great writers of the time, her work featured a degree of autobiographical content.
We collected a sample of 6 auction results of Eliot, George's The Works of George Eliot from 1 different auction houses. The lowest overall price realized in our sample was $240 and the highest overall price realized was $1337. The overall average price was $804 and the median price realized for the book was $856. There were 0 auctions (0%) with a price realized below the low estimate, 0 auctions (0%) exceeding the high estimates, and 0 auctions (0%) within the range of the low and high estimates. Auctions of interest include: a Bonhams sale on November 29, 2011 of a edition for $1337 that L.P. Hartly's copy with pencil notes in his hand;Auction House | Auction Date | Author | Title | City | Publisher | Year | Estimate | Sale Price | Auction Page | Copies For Sale | |
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Bonhams | June 25, 2014 | Eliot, George. | The Works of George Eliot | Edinburgh | William Blackwood | 1880 | - | $752 | |||
Bonhams | November 29, 2011 | Eliot, George. | The Works of George Eliot | - | $1337 | ||||||
Bonhams | April 27, 2010 | Eliot, George. | The Works of George Eliot | Edinburgh | William Blackwood | 1880 | - | $240 | |||
Bonhams | May 20, 2008 | Eliot, George. | The Works of George Eliot | Edinburgh | William Blackwood | 1916 | - | $1091 | |||
Bonhams | December 4, 2007 | Eliot, George. | The Works of George Eliot | Estes | 1900 | - | $960 | ||||
Bonhams | June 29, 2004 | Eliot, George. | The Works of George Eliot | Edinburgh | William Blackwood | 1880 | - | $447 |