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Condition: Near Fine
Description: 25 Volumes, Complete. #191 Of 750 Copies Of The Large Paper Edition. Original Publisher's Three Quarter Red-Brown Crushed Morocco, Five Bands, Gilt Lettering With Decorations On Spine, Gilt Rules On Covers, Over Rose/White Marbled Paper With Matching Endpapers. Top Edges Gilt; Red Silk Book Mark Ribbons Bound Into Each Volume. With A Two Page Handwritten Letter By George Henry Lewes On His "The Priory" Letterhead, Undated; "My Dear (M---), If The Editor Does Not Print Both Your Articles It Will Assuredly Not Be Because They Dont (Sic) Deserve It- They Are Admirable-But He Saves His Space For (----?). On The First Topic He Has A Note From Me, (---------) In Answer To Bain, + As We Take The Same Line He May Think Yours Superfluous Carrying Of Coal To The (-----) Depot. In A Letter From Ritter Rec'd The Other Day He Plaintively Remarks That You Haven't Written Since May Last. Now The Book Is Appearing I Dare Say You Will Feel The Impulse As (---?) Or It To Him. Yes, What You Say About Mrs. Lewes's Happiness In Her Work Is True- The Pain Is There But Tis Delicious Pain After All, And The Deep Feelings She Creates In Others Reacts Upon Herself To Make Her Prize Her Power. Tomorrow You Will Have The Spoiled Child. Ever Yours, Ghl." The Set Exceptionally Well Preserved, Near Fine, Just A Few Points Of Rubbing At Corners, All Spines Uniformly And Evenly Browned. [Note: Books Not Signed, But With Signed Letter From George Lewes).
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
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Description: Large Paper Edition. Number 155 of 750 copies. Frontispieces in 2 states each, one colored, the other uncolored and signed in pencil. The illustrations reproduce original drawings and one is a SIGNED frontispiece by Henry Marriott Paget, Charles Brock (in Middlemarch), Frederick Pegram, Ambrose Dudley and others, as well as photogravures by D.E. Walmsley. on Japon paper. 25 vols. 8vo. This set includes all of the novels as well as Scenes from Clerical Life; The Lifted Veil; Brother Jacob; Impressions of Theophrastus Such; The Spanish Gypsy; Poems; Essays and Leaves from a Note-Book; Essays and Uncollected Papers; and George Eliot's Life As Related in Her Letters and Journals Arranged and Edited by Her Husband J.W. Cross (3 vols.). Bound in three quarters crushed levant over marbled boards, raised bands, spine gilt, marbled boards, t.e.g., others uncut; about fine with a touch of fading Frontispieces in 2 states each, one colored, the other uncolored and signed in pencil. The illustrations reproduce original drawings and one is a SIGNED frontispiece by Henry Marriott Paget, Charles Brock (in Middlemarch), Frederick Pegram, Ambrose Dudley and others, as well as photogravures by D.E. Walmsley. on Japon paper. 25 vols. 8vo Large Paper Edition. Number 155 of 750 copies.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
ELIOT George. Writings. , 1908.
Price: US$11000.00 + shipping
Description: ELIOT, George. The Writings. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1908. Twenty-five volumes. Octavo, contemporary full brown crushed morocco, raised bands, elaborately gilt-decorated boards and spines, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, uncut and largely unopened. $11,000.Splendid large-paper edition of Eliots writings, number 29 of only 750 sets produced, with over 150 illustrations including hand-colored frontispieces in double-suite, with a signed autograph letter by Eliot bound into Volume I.Eliot, who pioneered the method of psychological analysis characteristic of modern fiction, has been praised for the qualities that make her "a supreme novelist in an age of great novelists" (Kunitz and Haycraft, 212). The illustrations reproduce original drawings by Charles Brock, Frederick Pegram, Ambrose Dudley, Henry Paget Archibald Hartrick and others, as well as photogravures by C. E. Walmsley, many taken for this edition, of English estates and countryside featured in Eliot's writings. The frontispieces appear in double suite, one of each beautifully hand-colored. Includes all of Eliot's major novels, as well as the essays and letters. With an extensive biographical and critical notice. The autograph letter, signed by Eliot (with her actual name, Marian Evans), reads: "1 Sydney Place Dover. March 20, 1855. Dear Friend, I wrote to you in a hurry the other day. I had not time to express what I really feelthorough sympathy with you under this terrible trial of illness. Indeed in my first hasty reading of your letter I did not fully bring before myself the meaning of the words 'three weeks in bed from disease of the left lung.' But now I do so, I am grieved to think of what you must have suffered, so I write this note from old friendship, ___ with ___ to tell you how sincerely I shall be interested to know of your progress towards health. I suppose I shall be in London before long, but any news of you before then would be very welcome. There is no use in this letter, to be sure, but I couldn't help writing it. Perhaps after all it may do you a little good to know that you have the hearty interest and friendship of Marian Evans."Fine condition.
Seller: Bauman Rare Books, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.