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. The works of George Eliot: Scenes of clerical life, volumes I & II. William Blackwood, 1892.
Price: US$12.82 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 2 volume set, seems fine to read throughout, but is aged and shelfworn with some dirt marks. The content has some tanning, seems fine to read.
Seller: Hay-on-Wye Booksellers, Hay-on-Wye, HEREF, United Kingdom
George Eliot. Novels of George Eliot. William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London, 1892.
Price: US$115.49 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: A lovely five volume set of the novels of George Eliot in uniform cloth binding. A lovely set of the Novels of George Eliot in the original publisher's cloth bindings.A set of five works, all of which are undated with the exception of Middlemarch, which is dated 1892.Includes the following works:Middlemarch, A Study of Provincial Life (1892), a new edition illustrated with a vignette title page.Adam Bede, a new edition illustrated with a vignette title page and six monochrome plates.Scenes of Clerical Life, the stereotyped edition with a vignette title page and five monochrome plates, with the plate facing page 83 detached. Prior owner's ink inscription from 1885 to the first free endpaper.Felix Holt, the stereotyped edition with a vignette title page and six monochrome plates. Prior owner's ink inscription to the first free endpaper.Romola, the stereotyped edition illustrated with a vignette title page. Prior owner's ink inscription to the first free endpaper from 1926.Collated, complete.George Eliot was the pen name of Mary Ann Evans, one of the leading writers of the Victorian era.Prior owner's book plates to the first pastedowns. From the library of Robert Mackenzie Marshall. In the original publisher's cloth bindings. Externally, sound. There is some bumping to the heads and tails of the spines and to the extremities. There is some slight loss to the heads and tails of the spines. The hinges are strained but firm. Prior owner's ink inscriptions to some of the first free endpapers and prior owner's book plates to the first pastedowns. Internally, firmly bound. The pages are bright and clean with some odd spots. Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$192.49 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: - Eight works bound as seven volumes including "Adam Bede", "The Mill on the Floss", Volumes III "Silas Marner" and IV "Scenes of a Clerical Life" bound as one volume, "Felix Holt", "Romola", Middlemarch" and "Daniel Deronda" - Half bound in calf w/ red marbled boards - Gilt decoration and five raised bands to spine - Red marble endpapers - Marbled edges of text block - Previous owner's name in ink to prelim pages of all seven volumes - Boards edges rubbed w/ boards exposed - Hinges breached but not open - Gilt decoration faded and rubbed - Scratches and marks to marbled paper w/ Daniel Deronda and Middlemarch most faded - Chips to Calf including corners and spine ends - Some foxing and toning to content - Volumes ow/ solid and clean - A Lovely Set -
Seller: Green Ink Booksellers, Hay-on-Wye, United Kingdom
George Eliot; J. W. Cross. Novels of George Eliot. William Blackwood and Sons, London, 1892.
Price: US$230.99 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: An eight volume set of illustrated novels by George Eliot, with a biography continued by her husband J. W. Cross, bound in half calf. Eight volume complete set. Nine volumes of work bound over eight.The new edition of 'George Eliot's Life', 'Daniel Deronda', 'Adam Bede' and 'Middlemarch'. The stereotyped edition of 'Felix Holt', 'Ramola', 'Mill of the Floss' and 'Scenes of a Clerical Life'.Bound in half calf with marbled paper to the boards. Raised bands and gilt details to the spines.Illustrated with vignettes to the title pages and;6 plates to volumes 'Adam Bede', 'Mill on the Floss' and 'Felix Holt',2 plates to 'Silas Marner',5 plates to 'Scenes of a Clerical Life' and,8 plates to 'Life of George Eliot', including a folding facsimile of her handwriting. Collated complete.This set features a collection of novels by the popular Mary Ann Evans, who wrote under the pen name, George Eliot. The set includes all seven of her novels including 'Mill on the floss' and 'Adam Bede'. The set also includes a biography started by Evans and finished by her husband J. W. Cross. Bound in half calf with marbled paper to the boards. Externally generally smart with marks to the boards, fading to the spines and to the head of 'Volume 2' with loss of the spine labels to the spines to volumes '1, 2 and 5', front joint starting to 'Life of George Eliot' and a closed tear to the leather title to the spine to 'Volume 5'. Hinges starting to volumes 1, 2, 3 and 5. Internally generally firmly bound with page 363 of 'Volume 1' disbound but present. Pages generally clean and bright with minimal age toning and a tidemark to the front blank to 'Volume 7'. Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom