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The Mill on the Floss [1st edition] 3 volumes

Name: The Mill on the Floss [1st edition] 3 volumes
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Author: ELIOT, George

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The Mill on the Floss

George Eliot

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 3 volumes. 21cm x 14cm. Original Victorian blindstamped cloth with gilt lettering to spine. The bindings are in good condition with some bumps to corners, marks to the boards with minor marks and rubbing to the spine resulting in a fading of the lettering. Textually clean in the main, minor marks. 3 volumes each with title pages and half-titles. A good set of this first edition work by George Eliot.

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GEORGE ELIOT was born in Nuneaton on November 22, 1819. Baptized Mary Anne Evans, Eliot chose to write using a male pen name. She was sent away to school but returned when her mother died in 1836. She later moved to Coventry with her father. After her father's death she became the Assistant Editor of the Westminster Review in 1851. She also met George Henry Lewes this year and they became partners for the rest of his life. Lewes was already married, although he and his wife both considered their relationship to be an open one, but he and Eliot set up home together, much to the dismay of polite London society. In 1857 Eliot published Amos Barton in Blackwood's Magazine and in 1859 her novel Adam Bede was published to great acclaim. Her first attempt to write Middlemarch , her most famous novel, ended in failure. Abandoning it, she began a short novella entitled Miss Brooke which was eventually integrated into the final version of Middlemarch . The novel was published serially in eight parts in 1871. Lewes died in 1878 and Eliot married again in 1880. Her husband, John Walter Cross was an American who was twenty years her junior. George Eliot died on December 22, 1880 at 4 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea and is buried in Highgate Cemetery next to Lewes.

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Bookseller: Butler Rare Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 1306
Title: The Mill on the Floss [1st edition] 3 volumes
Author: ELIOT, George
Format/Binding: The bindings are in good condition with some bumps to corners, marks to the boards with minor marks and rubbing to the spine res
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition: Good
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First edition in original Victorian cloth
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London, 1860
Place of Publication: London, Edinburgh
Date Published: 1860
Size: 21cm x 14cm
Weight: 0.00 lbs
Keywords: Eliot George, George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss,
Bookseller catalogs: Literature;
Note: May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.

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