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Price: US$495.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Edition limited to 250 for America. The book was printed in two parts, with the first 30 etchings bound together - our copy is No. 71. The second set of 30 is from No. 77, both contained in a large folio size book with cream vellum half-bound to spine over heavy scarlet red cloth on boards with bright gilt deeply stamped lettering to front. Back of book has some moisture damage to it but all prints/etchings inside are in Near Fine or better condition. Alas, some prints are missing. Etchings and photo-etchings by: W.J. Mozart, W.L. Taylor, F. Childe Hassam, F.S. Church, Will H. Low, J. Henry Hill, H. Winthrop Peirce, Henry Sandham, Frederic Dielman, S.A. Schoff, J. Wells Champney, Fred D. Schell, Walter Satterlee, Wm. Unger, George Fuller, E.A. Fowle, and F.W. Freer. The plates here depict scenes from various Eliot works, including: "Adam Bede", "Mill on the Floss", "Felix Holt, the Radical", "Scenes of Clerical Life", "Middlemarch", "Daniel Deronda", "Romola", "Silas Marner", "Poems", "Essays", and Cooke's "Life". Contains over 40 plates - with a duplicate of Plate XX, Rosehill.
Seller: Barberry Lane Booksellers, Bar Harbor, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$1187.66 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Scarce. Large and very heavy volume, containing sixty tipped in prints of scenes and characters from the works of George Eliot. Limited de luxe edition of fifty 'for the continent of Europe,' this is number 10. Ex-library, but with only a few discreet stamps and references numbers. The decorative boards are bumped and scuffed to the corners, have marks to the surfaces, and are scuffed along the edges of the spine with a few small splits, only minor marks and wear to the contents. Weight 3.75 kgs approx. Price includes courier postage worldwide. A supplementary charge may apply for sending to some countries, depending on the rates at the time of purchase (but no extra will be charged for sales to North America, the EU or Australia).
Seller: Waimakariri Books and Prints Limited, Oxford, New Zealand
Price: US$1976.00 + shipping
Description: 435 x 300 mm. (17 1/4 x 11 3/4"). [2] leaves of text followed by plates. Publisher's ivory cloth, upper cover with two bands of gilt knotwork on a red background, gilt lettering, smooth spine with gilt titling and publisher's device, blue printed endpapers, all edges gilt. 60 ETCHINGS AND PHOTO-ETCHINGS ON JAPON tipped onto lettered cardstock. Baker & Ross F8 (prospectus for deluxe edition). âA sprinkling of very faint brown spots to tail edge of upper board, a couple of plates with trivial wrinkles or creases, but AN EXTREMELY FINE COPY, quite clean, fresh, and bright inside and out, with excellent impressions of the plates. This is an outstanding copy of an attractive portfolio containing a suite of plates created for a deluxe edition of the works of George Eliot produced by Estes and Lauriat. In addition to Eliot's eight novels, that edition included collected essays, poems, and a life of Eliot by George Willis Cooke. The plates here depict scenes from "Adam Bede" (six plates), "Mill on the Floss" (three), "Felix Holt, the Radical" (four), "Scenes of Clerical Life" (four), "Middlemarch" (seven), "Daniel Deronda" (seven), "Romola" (seven), "Silas Marner" (one), "Poems" (13), "Essays" (four), and Cooke's "Life" (four). While copies of this portfolio appear on the market from time to time, they are almost always soiled and worn. A pristine copy like the present one, with vellum nearly immaculate and without any splaying, is hard to find. No. 17 OF 50 COPIES of the Edition de Luxe, printed for the Continent.
Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Rare Books (ABAA), McMinnville, OR, U.S.A.