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Price: US$96.20 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: No DJ. Hardcover Leather-bound, two volume set, Published as part of a set: âThe Works of George Eliotâ. No publication date: about 1900. Top page edges with gilt, other edges untrimmed. Marginal toning of end pages, from leather. Volume 1 has 3 stains on back hardcover, 1 smaller stain front hardcover. Both with light hardcover shelf wear and light soiling, and wear of edges. No other marks in lightly read books. Bindings tight. 444, 447 pages.
Seller: Orca Knowledge Systems, Inc., Novato, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$377.85 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The first edition of John Cross's biography of his wife George Eliot in three volumes. Complete in three volumes. The first edition of this work.Affectionate biography of leading Victorian author George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) by her husband. Written five years after George's death, this biography was largely drawn from her correspondences and journals reflecting on the intimate personality of the renowned author. Her works are known for theirrealism,psychological insight, sense of place and detailed depiction of the countryside.Complete with half titles.Illustrated with a frontispiece and five further plates to volume I; frontispiece and singular further plate to vol. II; frontispiece and two further plates to vol. III. Collated, complete. In the original publisher's uniform full cloth bindings. Externally very smart with only light bumping to head and tail of spine. Previous owner's gift inscription to half title vol I. Internally, binding generally firm. Light minor faint spotting to odd leaf only, pages otherwise generally bright and clean. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$576.39 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Biography of George Eliot by her husband in three volumes, the author's presentation copy of the first edition. Complete in three volumes. The first edition of this work.Author's presentation copy inscribed to half title 'with affectionate remembrance' signed John W Cross and dated 1885.Affectionate biography of leading Victorian author George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) by her husband. Written five years after George's death, this biography was largely drawn from her correspondences and journals reflecting on the intimate personality of the renowned author. Her works are known for theirrealism,psychological insight, sense of place and detailed depiction of the countryside.Complete with half titles.Illustrated with a frontispiece and five further plates to volume I; frontispiece and singular further plate to vol. II; frontispiece and two further plates to vol. III. Collated, complete. Rebacked with the original uniform spine and boards restored. Externally very smart with minor shelf wear only, lightly bumped to head and tail of spine and extremities. Frontispiece to p. vi vol. II loose but present. Internally, otherwise firmly bound. Pages generally clean with a touch of age toning to leaves, as usual with the type of paper used. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
John Walter Cross. George Eliot's Life. William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London, 1885.
Price: US$762.11 + shipping
Description: The first edition of John Cross' biography on his late wife Mary Ann Evans, also known as George Eliot, the popular author. In a full calf signed binding by Waters, Newcastle. The first edition of this work. Complete in three volumes. In a signed binding by Waters, Newcastle. Volume I with a frontispiece, and four plates. Collated, bound without plate 'Portrait of Mr Robert Evans' facing page 204. Volume II with a frontispiece, and a folding plate showing a facsimile of Eliot's handwriting. Collated, complete. Volume III with a frontispiece, and two plates. Collated, complete. Bookplate to the front pastedowns, 'John William Pease'. He was part of the Pease family, a prominent English Quaker family. He was married to Helen mary Foxm and founded the Newcastle bank Hodgkin, Barnett, Pease, Spence & Co with his brother-in-law Thomas Hodgkin. The bank eventually became part of Lloyds Bank in 1902. Prior owner's ink inscription to the recto to the front free endpaper, 'Arnold F. Judd. 23rd February 1920'. This biography was written five years after George Eliot's death. The biography was largely sourced from Eliot's letters and journals, and reflected the typical Victorian habit of sweeping less than ideal facts under the rug. As a result, the reader is left with a picture of Eliot has a literary and intellectual goddess. In fact, Eliot was known for scandal. She had lived with a married man for over twenty years until his death. Though they considered themselves to be married, George Henry Lewes was already married to Agnes Jervis, with whom he had an open marriage. In contrast to the habit of hiding affairs, Eliot and Lewes were open about their relationship, and did not try and conceal it in any way. Due to that, Eliot's novels received extra criticism, with people trying to find hints of immorality in her fiction. Written by John Walter Cross, George Eliot's husband. Cross was a long time friend and advisor of Eliot, and was twenty years her junior. The two became closer after the death of Lewes, and they married in 1880. The first edition of this interesting biography on an influential author. A rebacked full calf signed binding by Waters, Newcastle. Externally, smart. Light bumping to the head and tail of the spines and to the extremities. Minor rubbing to the spines. A few light marks to the boards. Bookplate to the front pastedowns. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean with the odd mark. Pencil annotation to the margin of page 171 of Volume I. Ribbon markers to Volumes I and II are attached. Ribbon marker to Volume II is detached but present. Very Good Indeed
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$2035.00 + shipping
Description: 3 volumes. First Edition. A copy with superb provenance, the Robert Hoe copy with his discreet plate. Decorated throughout with engraved illustrations to each volume. Complete. 8vo, Very handsomely bound in full polished calf, the covers wit triple gilt fillet rules at the borders and gilt corner-pieces, the spines with raised bands gilt stopped, the compartments of the spines elaborately decorated with panels gilt tooled in an all-over design with central gilt ornamental devices, top edges gilt, fine marbled endleaves. xiv, [2], 484; vi, [2], 449, [1]; vi, [2], 470 pp. A superb set, beautifully preserved and unusually fine. FIRST EDITION OF THIS SUPERB BIOGRAPHY OF GEORGE ELIOT, ARRANGED AND EDITED BY HER HUSBAND. IN VERY BEAUTIFUL AND FULLY GILT DECORATED BINDINGS, WITH VERY FINE PROVENANCE, THE ROBERT HOE COPY WITH HIS DISCREET AND FAMOUS PLATE. The stories of George Eliot and J.W Cross are legendary. She, twenty years his senior, he, her admirer for many years. They met in Italy and traveled there after their marriage. He was a fine writer and this work is still considered the best and most intimate of all the books on George Eliot. She died one of the most famous women in the English speaking world, and next to the Queen, probably the richest woman in Great Britain.
Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.