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Eliot, George f. ROMOLA (vol 2 of 2 vols). Smith Elder 1880., London, 1880.
Price: US$16.00 + shipping
Description: FAIR book. Chapters w decorative initials. Plates with tissue guards. Outside of book, boards & page edges, worn & soiled. FAIR book (MISSING plate p56). NEAR FINE text & illustrations.
Seller: Quiet Friends IOBA, Lyndonville, NY, U.S.A.
George ELIOT. ROMOLA. Smith Elder & Co, London, 1880.
Price: US$96.62 + shipping
Description: Two volumes. Copy number 716 of a Limited Edition of 1000 numbered copies. Quarto (10.75 x 7.25 ins); pp. x, 396; xi, 403pp. With 22 engraved plates (behind guards) by Sir Frederick Leighton. Publisher's original half brown buckram boards, orig title labels to spine, somewhat toned, gilt lettering on spines. A solid and clean set Eliot's famous study of life in the city of Florence in the fifteenth century. NB: AS THIS IS A HEAVY SET AN EXTRA SHIPPING CHARGE MAY APPLY.
Seller: Worlds End Bookshop (ABA, PBFA, ILAB), LONDON, United Kingdom
Price: US$127.54 + shipping
Description: Two Volumes. Tall hardback, approx 11 x 8 inches. Quarter bound fine leather binding, with navy blue morocco leather to spines and corners with marbled paper to boards. Raised banding and gilt lettering to spines. Top page edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. In very good conditions. Some minor shelfwear to covers with some minor rubbing to edges and corners of boards. Some minor rubbing to boards. Some minor foxing to endpapers and blank prelims. Previous owners inscription to front of both volumes ?Given to my Wife, Dec 1880, J.A. Huxley.? Hand numbered 776/1000. Some light foxing to inside pages, some minor darkening and light foxing to plates, all are tissue guarded. Else pages overall very clean and tight throughout. 2 volumes: Illustrated with 24 full-page mounted B&W plates, plus 3 smaller vignettes plates pasted-in, one in Proem, and others at p1 of each volume.
Seller: PROCTOR / THE ANTIQUE MAP & BOOKSHOP, DORCHESTER, United Kingdom
Eliot (George). ROMOLA- TWO VOLUMES. Smith, Elder and Co, London, 1880.
Price: US$154.59 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: TWO VOLUMES. LIMITED EDITION OF 1000 COPIES THIS BEING NUMBER 844. x, 396pp., xi, 403pp., half brown morocco, brown cloth, gilt lettering on spine, slightly rubbed with some minor soiling, gilt top edge, marbled endpapers, 22 engraved plates by Sir Frederick Leighton, some foxing within primarily to tissue guards and plates, bindings sound. Please note that due to the weight of the set extra postage may be required for shipping outside of the UK. Size: 10.75" x 7.25"
Seller: Old Hall Bookshop, ABA ILAB PBFA BA, Brackley, United Kingdom
Price: US$154.68 + shipping
Description: Numbered Copy no. 192 Place Printed: London Part 1: 2 Blank pages / 396 Pages / 6 After blanks / 12 Engraved Plates Part 2: 2 Blank pages / 6 NNP / 12 Engraved Plates / 403 Pages / 2 NNP There are 11 extra pictures availabe on request! 8,5 (1-10) Small defect on backstrip, further in very good condition. Height (cm): 27,5 Width (cm): 19,5 Thickness (cm): 10 Weight (kg): 4,11
Seller: Antiquariaat Meuzelaar, Heusden, NB, Netherlands
George Eliot. Romola. Smith, Elder, and Co., London, 1880.
Price: US$180.36 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: A limited edition two volume copy of 'Romola' by George Eliot, set in fifteenth century Italy. Illustrated throughout by Frederick Leighton. A limited edition work, being numbered copy 504 of 1000. Complete in two volumes. 'Romola' is a novel set in fifteenth century Florence, taking place during historical events during the Italian Renaissance. The novel centers around Romola de' Bardi, the daughter of the blind classical scholar bardo de' Bardi. She herself is immersed in classical studies, and eventually falls in love with Tito Melema. Tito is a handsome young scholar, arriving in Florence after being shipwrecked. He eventually succumbs to ambitions and self-preservation, earning Romola's disdain. This novel was a far cry from George Eliot's other novels, all of which were set in nineteenth century England. Though it is considered to be one of the author's greatest works, it never was her most popular novel. Eliot supposedly spent eighteen months researching and contemplating the novel, including taking several trips to Florence. Eliot's best known works are 'Middlemarch' and 'The Mill on the Floss', and she was known for her realism and psychological insight in her writings. Illustrated by Frederick Leighton, a painter and sculptor known for his work depicting historical, biblical, and classical scenes. With a frontispiece, and eleven plates to Volume I, and a frontispiece and eleven plates to Volume II. Volume I has photographs of Leighton and Eliot tipped in to the front free endpaper. Bookplate to the front pastedowns, 'Francis Frederick Fox'. Bookplate to the recto to the front free endpapers. 'R. G. E. Sandbach. Collated, complete. In the original cloth binding. Externally, marking to the boards, heavier to the front board of Volume II. Light discolouration to the spines, with further fading to the head of the boards of Volume I. Minor bumping to the head and tail of the spines and to the extremities. Some loss to the spine labels. Front hinges are strained but firm, with amaetur repairs to the gutter of the front endpaper and front free endpaper of Volume I. Front endpaper, front free endpaper, and frontispiece of Volume I are working loose. Evidence of tape being formerly adhered between the verso to the half-title page and the recto to the frontispiece of Volume I. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are bright with scattered spotting, heavier to the plates and to the first and last few pages. Plate facing page 64 in Volume I is working loose. Amaeatur tape repairs bwteen page 293 and the plate facing page 299 of Volume I. Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
George Eliot. Romola. Smith Elder, London, 1880.
Price: US$240.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Two volumes. Spines are heavily sunned and the boards are soiled. Bound in light tweed like cloth with pasted labels on spines. On the first volume, the cloth on the binding has crack at the front board gutter. The second volume is in better shape. The end papers are a deep cooper/maroon color with no names or bookplates. Light LIMITED to 1000 copies. Both books are marked as 999. Some pages are uncut. Volume I -393 pages and Volume II 403 Extra postage will be required.
Seller: Adams Shore Books, Quincy, MA, U.S.A.
George Eliot. Romola. Smith, Elder, & Co, London, 1880.
Price: US$289.86 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A limited edition copy of George Eliot's classic historical novel set in the Italian Renaissance. A new limited edition. Number 490 out of 1000 copies. In the original full cloth binding. With twenty-two engraved plates. Collated complete. The classic historical novel by Mary Ann Evans, under the pseudonym of George Eliot. Complete in two volumes. The story takes place during the Italian Renaissance and includes notable historical figures in Florentine history. In the original cloth binding. Externally, very smart with some shelf wear to the edges. Marks and spotting to the boards. Spines are darkened and title plates are darkened and worn. The rear hinge of volume one is strained. Spotting to the free endpapers. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with some age-toning to the edges and the odd spot. Heavier spotting to the blanks and limitation pages. Several pages are uncut throughout. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
George Eliot. Romola in Two Volumes. Smith, Elder & Co, London, 1880.
Price: US$463.77 + shipping
Description: A fine binding and attractive edition of George Eliot's Romola in two volumes. This copy is number 381 out of only 1000 copies of this edition printed for sale. Half bound in dark green leather with gilt lettering on the brown leather spine. Beautiful top edge guilt on both volumes. Pastel marblepatterned endpapers. There is slight foxing on the pages towards the beginning of each volume. Illustrated throughout with detailed drawings. Overall, in very good condition. pp. 396 403.nbsp;
Seller: St Marys Books And Prints, Stamford, United Kingdom
George Eliot. Romola. Smith, Elder, and Co., London, 1880.
Price: US$637.69 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A lovely, limited edition copy of George Eliot's ambitious historical novel Romola, with illustrations throughout. Only one thousand copies of this edition were printed for sale, with this being copy number 384.Uniformly bound in red morocco.Romola is a historical novel by Mary Ann Evans under the pen name George Eliot. Set in Renaissance Florence, Romola is one of George Eliot's most ambitious and imaginative novels that follows Romola, the devoted and caring daughter of a blind scholar. Eliot creates a compelling, heroine who is battling for her own intellectual and spiritual awakening.George Eliot was one of the leading writers of the Victorian era, writing within the realms of realism, exploring her character's inner psychology in her novels Adam Bede, Middle March and Romola.With beautiful and compelling illustrations by Sir Frederick Leighton.Volume I has eleven beautiful plates and a frontispiece. Volume II also has eleven plates and a frontispiece.Collated, complete. Uniformly bound in red morocco. Externally, the volumes are smart with some light rubbing to the tails of the spines and a few marks to the boards. The bottom extremity of volume one is slightly bumped. Front hinge of volume two is starting, the front hinge of volume one is starting but remains firm. Internally, the volumes are firmly bound with bright and clean pages. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
ELIOT, George. Romola.. London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1880.
Price: US$772.96 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 2 volume set, 10 3/4 inches tall. Extraordinary half morocco by Hawes of Cambridge with wide gilt raised bands, ornate gilt tooling to the panels and gilt top edge. Very unusually a full page bookplate has been bound in to both volumes, that of Alfred Percy Allsopp. This set is number 300 of a limited edition of 1000 copies. Smith, Elder & Co. produced deluxe well illustrated limited editions in this tall format of the works of several great novelists including Dickens, Thackeray, Smollett and Fielding but this single title is as far as they got with Eliot. Profusely illustrated by Sir Frederick Leighton on India paper laid down. A pristine copy of her great historical novel set in 15th century Florence at the time of the Renaissance.
Seller: McConnell Fine Books ABA & ILAB, Deal, KENT, United Kingdom
George Eliot. Romola. Smith, Elder and Co, London, 1880.
Price: US$1417.09 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A finely bound, limited edition copy of George Eliot's noted novel, 'Romola'. In a Zaehensdorf binding, with the binder's stamp to the front pastedown. Numbered 559/1000 copies printed. A stunning binding by the prominent binder, Zahensdorf. With patterned doublures. This is a work of historical fiction, set in fifteenth century Italy. 'Romola' is a novel set in fifteenth century Florence, taking place during historical events during the Italian Renaissance. The novel centers around Romola de' Bardi, the daughter of the blind classical scholar bardo de' Bardi. She herself is immersed in classical studies, and eventually falls in love with Tito Melema. Tito is a handsome young scholar, arriving in Florence after being shipwrecked. He eventually succumbs to ambitions and self-preservation, earning Romola's disdain. This novel was a far cry from George Eliot's other novels, all of which were set in nineteenth century England. Though it is considered to be one of the author's greatest works, it never was her most popular novel. Eliot supposedly spent eighteen months researching and contemplating the novel, including taking several trips to Florence. Eliot's best known works are 'Middlemarch' and 'The Mill on the Floss', and she was known for her realism and psychological insight in her writings. Illustrated by Frederick Leighton, a painter and sculptor known for his work depicting historical, biblical, and classical scenes. With a frontispiece, and eleven plates to Volume I, and a frontispiece and eleven plates to Volume II. Collated, complete. Prior owner's bookplate to the front pastedown, Edmund Whitelock Reeves. Loosely inserted is a letter from one Alfred Markly dated July 1884 gifting this book to one Louie Hunter as a wedding present. A finely bound set of this charming Victorian novel by a noted author, complemented by beautiful illustrations. In a full crushed morocco binding. Externally, in a lovely condition. A small patch of rubbing to the head of spine to volume II, and to the top raised band of the same volume. A light mark to the front board of volume II. Bookplate to the front pastedown, Edmund Whitelock Reeves. Internally, firmly bound. Near Fine
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$1610.33 + shipping
Description: A handsomely bound set of this limited edition of Eliot's historical Florentine romance, this number 700 of 1,000 copies. The meticulously researched suite of illustrations was commissioned from Leighton by publisher George Smith to accompany the first appearance of the novel as a serial publication in his Cornhill Magazine, 1862-63; here they benefit from being printed with appropriate care. Leighton was likely selected for the job of illustrating the work because "he had lived in Florence and studied in its academy in 1845-46, and because he had made rather a speciality of Florentine Renaissance subjects in his early work" (Witemeyer), Eliot's husband G. H. Lewes, at the time also editor of the Cornhill, was delighted with the choice, declaring Leighton "by far the best man to be had in England". The collaboration was perhaps not entirely successful, Eliot had mixed feelings about Leighton's work, which was certainly somewhat uneven, registering "deep disappointment with some of his pictures, [but] genuine delight in others", finally resigned "to the inevitable discrepancy between the artist's conception of the scenes and her own". In later life she confided to artist and critic P. G. Hamerton that she was generally pleased with Leighton's illustrations, especially with his conception of Romola's husband Tito. For Leighton, he was happy to be working in the style he had earlier identified in a letter to his mother as "correctly drawn historical genre" (Barrington, I, p. 48), and this commission offered him the opportunity to initiate some important transitions in his style, first testing "many of the pictorial formulae that were to reappear in his best-known paintings" (Witemeyer). Mrs. Russell Barrington, The Life, Letters, and Work of Frederic Leighton, (1906); Hugh Witemeyer, "Frederic Leighton's Illustrations of Romola", George Eliot and the Visual Arts, a Victorian Web Book. Two volumes, quarto (266 x 183 mm). Early 20th-century deep reddish brown crushed morocco by Rivière and Son, small gilt name pallet to front turn-ins, raised bands with single gilt fillet, lettered direct to the spines, single fillet gilt panels to the compartments enclosing ivy leaf corners tools, central green morocco lozenge ployé onlay within a geometric escutcheon, all boards with a double fillet panel enclosing a single, the front boards with triple ivy leaf tooling enclosed at the corners with matching green morocco onlays, a quatrefoil grouping of larger such lozenges to the centre, single gilt edge-roll, wide turn-ins with gilt rules and triple ivy leaf corner motifs, red and greenish yellow Morris marbled endpapers, top edge gilt the others untrimmed. Engraved frontispiece printed on India paper and eleven similar plates to each, original tissue guards, 14 historiated initials in all, and a tailpiece to the Proem printed in the same manner. Armorial bookplates of Sir James Mackenzie Davidson (1856-1919) "founding father of British radiology" and popular educator, designed and engraved by W. & A. Mussett "The Heraldic Studio", to free endpapers, ownership inscription of Annie G. Gjers dated 1906 to the half-titles. Some very light shelf wear, light foxing to the binder's blanks and pale spotting front and back to the text blocks, but overall very good indeed.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom