A Study of Provincial Life
Middlemarch A Study of Provincial Life
Blackwood, 1871.
First edition in book form. 8vo. Four volumes, bound in contemporary half calf over marbled boards, lettered in gilt and decorated with gilt banding and tooling to the spine. Top edge gilt, others marbled. Errata slip tipped into the the end of the first volume, "not present in most copies" (Baker). A very good set, with some scattered foxing. Translation rights statement at the foot of title-page cropped in one volume and shaved in two others. Previous ownership inscription to the front free endpaper in each volume.
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."
Baker A10.1.a2
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