A Study of Provincial Life
Middlemarch A Study of Provincial Life
Blackwood, 1871.
First edition in book form. 8vo. Four volumes, bound in later half calf over marbled boards with blind tooling to calf edges. Lettered in gilt and decorated with gilt banding and tooling to the spine, raised bands creating six sections with two morocco title labels in green and red. All edges marbled. Marbled endpapers. A near fine set, with very occasional spots of internal foxing and the trimming of the title pages of vol I and IV clipping some of the "translation rights" text slightly.
Eliot's greatest novel written at the height of her artistic maturity. V.S. Pritchett in his introduction to a later edition of the novel, opines, "No Victorian novel approaches Middlemarch in its width of reference, its intellectual power, or the imperturbable spaciousness of its narrative... No writer has ever represented the ambiguities of moral choice so fully."
Stock ID: 46335
£4,500.00
