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New York, NY: John W. Lovell Company , 1891 John W. Lovell Company, New York. 1891. (the only year that successors to notation was used). Hardcover. Reprint editions. Part of The New Columbus Series / The Columbus Edition. Books are tight, square, and are unmarked. Book Conditions: Very Good; light sunfading to spines; moderate toning to pages. No DJs. Red cloth boards and spines with black lettering and decorations on the spine and front board; title in Eliot's Works in gold shadowbox on the spine. 3489 pp in total 12mo. This is a special set of Eliot's Works by the Lovell Company that was mostly a reprint house and was never on solid financial footing - thus the inexpensive paper used that quickly oxidized/toned. In addition to the titles listed on the spines and title pages there are many lesser know works by Eliot in the volumes; The Adam Bede volume has Mr. Gilfil's Love Story and Janet's Repentance; The Felix Holt volume has The Spanish Gypsy and The Legend of Jubai; The Mill on… Read More

NY: Worthington Co., 1887. Hardcover. Good. Covers and spine fully intact. Green cloth boards with gilt to front and spine. Brown flowers and decoration to front and spine.

Complete six volume matching set. Book conditions from very good to near fine. Some shelf wear around edges. Pages are in excellent condition, No indication of publishing date.

John W. Lovell Company Green boards. All six volumes are in very good condition. No date.. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket.

New York: The Century Co., 1910. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo. An excellent copy with gilt tops. Some light edge-wear to boards and some light rubbing to crown and foot of spines. Vol 7 with light thumbnail-sized patch of fading. Occasional very light soiling to boards. Texts clean. Bindings solid..

NY: George Munro. Very Good+. N.D.. Hardcover. This is a bound accumulation of the appearances of Eliot's works, published in the Seaside Library magazine in the 1800's, and bound in a very nice three-quarter green leather book. Raised bands, gilt title. Slight rubbing to the edges, one small "ding" on the spine. The pages are very white & clean, with the exception of a stain on just a few in one spot. Some of the pages were trimmed right at, or just into, the text on the edge of the page. The magazine is not dated, but from the paper and type, dates from the 1880's. A nice period accumulation, of a magazine which is scarce in Its own right, in a binding which would cost hundreds to produce today. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall .

New York: John W. Lovell Six Volumes, circa 1900. Frontispieces. Brown-Gold 3/4 Leather, marbled boards.Five raised bands, gilt lettering, decorations on the spine. Labeled spines with fading to the bottom labels. There are light spots to the spines, minor scuffs to the extremities. The hinges are in excellent conditionContains Middlemarch, Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, Scenes From Clerical Life, Adam Bede, Daniel Deronda, Felix Holt, Poems, Spansh Gypsy, Romola, Theophrastus Such.. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo.

Estes and Lauriat, Boston. Handy Volume Edition. No date. . Hardback.. Black and White frontispieces. Leather spines and corners, with marbled boards. Very Good (hinges starting to wear). Oversize; Postage & Packing may cost extra.

Edinburgh & London: Blackwood. 1892. Seven volumes. Original full leather boards with gilt decorations to spine and raised bands, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled, b&w illus vignette title pages, some volumes further engraved illustrations (Adam Bede, Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner/Clerical Life, Felix Holt). Boards rubbed, particularly with some loss to upper label Daniel Deronda. Good condition. A complete set of George Eliot's illustrated novels, bound in matching leather bindings. Volumes three and four bound together. Eight works bound in seven volumes. Full leather.

London: The Folio Society, 1999. Hardcover. London, The Folio Society, 1999 (all first thus). Large octavo, seven volumes, with numerous illustrations from engravings by (respectively) Peter Reddick, Ian Stephens, Miriam MacGregor, Peter Forster, George Tute, Simon Brett and Harry Brockway. Pictorial cloth; spines lightly sunned; an excellent in the decorated slipcases with a split to the top edge of the second one. With an Introduction to each volume by (respectively) Jane Gardam, Bell Mooney, Jill Paton Walsh, Gillian Beer, Kathryn Hughes, Penelope Fitzgerald and A.S. Byatt. [7 items].

New York: Garretson, Cox & Company. Reissue. Half-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. Front hinge of second and sixth volumes just beginning to weaken,. Complete in eight volumes. 8vo. Half-leather, black and burgundy morocco spine labels, gilt titles and rules, marbled boards, endpapers, and edges, engraved frontispieces. 'George Eliot' was of course a pen name for Mary Ann Evans, who was among the most important authors of the Victorian era. Virginia Woolf called Middlemarch "one of the few English novels written for grown-up people." Includes: Adam Bede; Romola; Felix Holt: The Radical / Impressions of Theophrastus Such; Daniel Deronda; Scenes of Clerical Life / Silas Marner, The Lifted Veil, Brother Jacob; The Mill on the Floss; The Spanish Gypsy / The Legend of Jubal and Other Poems, Old and New; Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life.

Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons, [1890s].. Eight volumes bound in seven (Scenes of Clerical Life and Silas Marner bound in one volume as usual). 8vo. Contemporary half morocco over cloth boards, spines with Art Deco lettering and decoration, top edges gilt. Fairly even fading to the spines, the later volumes slightly slanted and volume III neatly recased, occasional light edge wear, an attractive set overall.

New York: William L. Allison Company, 1890. Half-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. No date, circa 1890. Rear board of sixth volume repaired at joint, spines slightly faded, board edges lightly rubbed with tiny blemish to D of Deronda and light soil to top edge of the same volume. Complete in eight volumes. 8vo. Leather spines and corners, gilt titles, rules, and decorations in compartments, top edges gilt, marbled boards and endpapers. 'George Eliot' was of course a pen name for Mary Ann Evans, who was among the most important authors of the Victorian era. Virginia Woolf called Middlemarch "one of the few English novels written for grown-up people." Includes: Scenes of a Clerical Life: The Sad Fortunes of the Reverend Amos Barton, Mr. Gilfil's Love Story, Janet's Repentance [with] Silas Marner, The Lifted Veil, and Brother Jacob; Adam Bede; The Mill on the Floss; Romola; Felix Holt, the Radical [with] Impressions of Theophrastus Such; The Spanish Gypsy, The Legend of Jubal, and… Read More

London; Folio Society, 1999., 1999. Hard Cover. FIRST THUS. Large octavo, pp. Box I: xi, [1], 483, [1]; xv, [3], 484; xvi, 527, [1]; xiv, 506; Box II: xii, [2], 415, [1]; xii, 758, [2], xiv, [2], 724, [2]. Illustrated by various engravers including Simon Brett and Harry Brockway. Publishers' harlequin set in various colours of cloth, with black titles to gilt panels to spines. Portrait roundels in black and gilt to upper boards. Housed in two matching green paper-covered card slipcases with gilt cartouche and black titles to panels. All volumes clean and crisp with no annotation or inscriptions, and appear unread. Slipcases lightly surface scuffed, and 4-volume slipcase marked with small surface loss, and bumped top rear edge with associated 6-cm closed split, which still holds firm. A Fine set in Very Good slipcases overall. All of Eliot's much-loved full-length fiction. Scarce as a complete matching set. Heavyweight so a contribution towards increased postage costs will be requested for overseas… Read More

Works of George Eliot (18 Volumes Buckner Library Edition Hardcover Bookset) Mary Ann Evans 19th Century British Literature Fiction English Novelist Home Library Decorative
18 Volume Set of the Buckner Library Edition of works by George Eliot (pen name of Mary Ann Evans). Undated publication, circa 1900's. Published by E. B. Hall & Co., Incorporated (New York and Boston). Illustrated with black and white etchings. Brick red cloth hardcovers show wear such as heavily bumped and worn-through corners and edges, bumped spine head & tail, nicked covers, scratches, large scuffs, shelfwear, wrinkled spine backstrips, and torn spine heads and tails. Volume I of Mill on the Floss has a quarter-sized dark spot/stain on the front cover, and a nick to the foreedge that impacts the first several pages. Covers have sunfade to the spine and edges, with the spine labels being tanned, heavily faded with tears. Tanned textblocks with chips and scratches to the top gilt edge. Volumes have deckled foreedges, with some of… Read More

Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood, 1877. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo.. The New, or Stereotyped, Edition handsomely bound in threequarter tan calf and red marbled paper with gilt rules. Raised bands to spine with gilt decoration and title labels. Some volumes have missing or damaged title labels. Edges are bumped and leather is rubbed. Marbling is a little worn. Marbled endpapers and page edges. Pages are age tanned with occasional slight foxing especially to prelims.. Marbling is a little worn. Marbled endpapers and page edges. Front hinge of Romola is beginning to crack, otherwise bindings are tight. 8vo. All volumes have engravings by Cooper and others. Previous owner's signature on feps of each volume dated 1880. The last two volumes are dated: Middlemarch is dated 1877, and Daniel Deronda is dated 1878. The earlier volumes are undated. A rare and very attractive set. Please enquire about postage as this set is heavy. 1877

New York: John W. Lovell Company. N.D.. Hardcover. All 6 volumes Very Good in boards. Light soiling on front and rear panel of all 6 volumes. Light shelfwear on spine heel of all 6 volumes. Front hinge cracked on "Scenes from Clerical Life, Adam Bede", "Felix Holt, Poems, Spanish Gypsy", and "Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner". Front hinge starting on "Middlemarch". Rear hinge starting on "Daniel Deronda". 1/2 closed tear on spine heel of "Middlemarch". Small closed tears on spine crown of "Felix Holt, Poems, Spanish Gypsy", "Daniel Deronda", Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner", and "Romola, Theophrastus Such". .

Edinburgh and London : William Blackwood and Sons, [ca. 1900?], 1900. 1st Edition in this form. Hardback. Very good copies in the original gilt-blocked blue cloth, with gilt ornamentation to spines. Gilt-stamped signature of author to the front panel of each volume, with a blind-tooled single line border. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Corners bumped. Some staining evident to spine covers of Silas Marner and Scenes from a Clerical Life. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Further scans, images etc. and additional bibliographical material available on request.; 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall; Physical description: 10v. fronts. ; 21cm. 10 volume edition of George Eliot's works, undated, published ca. 1900. Publication date interpreted by typeface and British Library catalogue. Subjects: Eliot, George, 1819-1880 -- Novels -- Works -- English fiction -- English literature -- 19th century. Each volume include a frontis with tissue guard.

Edinburgh : William Blackwood and Sons , 1901. Leather. Very Good Indeed. 8.5" by 5.5". Numerous Illustrators. A very smart ten volume set of works by English novelist, George Eliot, all in half calf binding. A complete set of ten volumes uniformly bound in half calf bindings with gilt detailing to the spines.A library edition complete set of works by leading Victorian writer, George Eliot. All volumes feature an illustrated monochrome frontispiece.The set comprises:Adam Bede Mill on The Floss Romola Scenes of Clerical Life Silas Marner: The Lifted Veil Brother Jacob Felix Holt: The Radical Middlemarch Daniel Deronda The Spanish Gypsy: The Legend of Jubal and Other Poems Old and New Theophrastus Such Essays and Leaves from a NotebookGeorge Eliot, real name Mary Ann Evans, was known for her realism, sense of place and detailed depiction of the countryside. As well as her seven novels, this set also comprises of Eliot's collection of three short stories in Vol V (her first published work… Read More

Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, no date [circa 1890s]. [Classic Literature] FINELY BOUND SET, mixed printings from a New Edition. Complete in eight volumes, bound as seven. Octavo (19 x 14 x 22cm), pp.[2] viii; 466 [2]; pp.[2] xii; 486 [2]; pp.[2] vi; 158; viii; 330 [2]; pp.[2] vi; 430 [2]; pp.[2] x; 504 [2]; pp.[2] viii; 621 [3]; pp.[2] vi; 612 [2]. Each volume with seven engraved plates, including a vignette title page, except Romola, Middlemarch, and Daniel Deronda, which only have a vignette title page. Contemporary brown half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles to spines, and marbled paper over boards. Top edges gilt. Ink ownership to first blank of each volume, with a large pencil inscription below it in 'Adam Bede'. Toning and spotting to edges, otherwise internally crisp and clean. Some light wear to bindings, otherwise an attractive very good set.