Comprising: Scenes of Clerical Life; Adam Bede; Mill on the Floss; Silas Marner; Romola; Felix Holt; Middlemarch; Legend of Jubal; Daniel Deronda; Impression of Theophrastus Such
The Works of George Eliot Comprising: Scenes of Clerical Life; Adam Bede; Mill on the Floss; Silas Marner; Romola; Felix Holt; Middlemarch; Legend of Jubal; Daniel Deronda; Impression of Theophrastus Such
Blackwood & Sons., 1857.
Ten works in 25 volumes. All first editions, uniformly and finely bound by Bayntun in twentieth century full tan morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and vignettes to spines. Ruled border to covers, all edges gilt. All half-titles where called for save for vols I-III of Daniel Deronda. A fine set, clean and crisp in fine bindings.
A complete set of the major works of one of the most important novelists of the 19th century in first edition. Eliot was "the most extensively anthologized novelist among her contemporaries. Her writing evinces a strong belief in progress, which for her meant the gradual improvement of the world through difficult, often imperceptible human effort, sometimes characterised as meliorism. Her biographer Kathryn Hughes calls her the 'last Victorian' because she thought it possible to face the crises of her time without 'shattering in shards'." - Orlando (Women's Writing in the British Isles)
Baker & Ross A3.2, A4.1; A5.1.a1, A6.1.a, A7.2, A8.1, A10.1.a, A11.1.a, A12.1.a, E1.1.a.
Stock ID: 46852
£8,500.00
