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Leather limp bound edition of Eliot's classic novel. Black leather jacket with gilt lettering and designs on spine. Decorative green endpapers. One B&W illustration with tipped-in tissue. Attached blue ribbon bookmark intact but frayed on end. Top edge gilt. Pages are very fine, thin paper.
FON inscribed on FFEP, dated 1924. Volume two of Nelson's "Works of George Eliot" series.
Wear on spine, especially top and heel. Some wear and bumping on jacket edges and corners. Some staining, age tanning, and small letters written on endpapers and flyleaf.
FON inscribed on FFEP, dated 1924. Volume two of Nelson's "Works of George Eliot" series.
Wear on spine, especially top and heel. Some wear and bumping on jacket edges and corners. Some staining, age tanning, and small letters written on endpapers and flyleaf.
Synopsis
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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Details
- Bookseller
- PWK Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- B10
- Title
- The Mill on the Floss
- Author
- George Eliot
- Format/Binding
- Leather limp bound
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Thomas Nelson and Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1920
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- eliot, mill, floss
- Bookseller catalogs
- The works of George Eliot; PWK Novels;
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Glossary
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- Limp Bound
- A book bound in a flexible leather or cloth. The covering material is not affixed to boards, as are traditional hardcover books....
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
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