Eliot, George

8vo, 2 volumes, first book edition, the Hogan-Doheny copy, half-titles, original blindstamped claret-coloured cloth (Baker & Ross variant B), cinnamon endpapers, spines lettered in gilt, uncut, some repairs to hinges with some remaining cracking, some slight discolouration or water-staining at head and bases of early and late leaves near top and base of spines, joints repaired, slight restoration to cloth at head and base of spines

Frank J. Hogan; Estelle Doheny (morocco book-labels)

Baker & Ross A3.2; Parrish 7; Sadleir 818; Wolff 2062

Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, when appropriate.
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First edition in cloth of the author's first published fiction, in which she sought to create a new fiction grounded in the moral realities of everyday experience. Scenes of Clerical Life was originally published serially in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine between January and November 1857. This first edition in book form was published in January 1858, in 1050 copies.