Eliot, George | Felix Holt. The Radical, a fine copy

Property from an Important American Collection

Eliot, George

Felix Holt. The Radical. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood, 1863

3 volumes, 8vo. Half-titles, 4 pages of advertisements at end of volume III; very light spotting. Publisher's orange-brown sand-grain cloth (Carter's "B" binding), covers blind stamped, spines gilt; head and foots of spines and outer corners slightly bumped. Collector's quarter morocco clamshell box.

First edition.

Eliot places Felix Holt, the passionate yet curt titular protagonist, against the haughty Radical nobleman Harold Transome in this powerful story that explores the complex political environment amidst the Reform Act of 1832.

REFERENCES:

Carter/Binding Variants, pp. 111–12; Parrish 20; Sadleir 814; Woolf 2058

PROVENANCE:

Rafe Carvalho (bookplate)