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George Eliot

<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">First edition</a> of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=George+Eliot&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Eliot</a>'s third novel, a fable in realist dress, praised by some as the greatest of her works.<ul><li>George Eliot (English).</li><li>Edinburgh and London:&nbsp;William Blackwood and Sons,&nbsp;1861. </li><li>[4], [6], 364, 16 pages.​&nbsp;</li><li>Original embossed russet cloth, gilt-stamped spine, binding A (Carter), most leaves unopened, publisher's ad for Alexander Carlyle at front; Blackwood catalogue at rear, binder ticker to rear paste-down.</li></ul> The idea for Eliot's only one-volume novel came "quite suddenly, as a sort of legendary tale" suggested by her childhood memory of seeing a weaver (as recounted in a letter to her publisher). By degrees she "became inclined to a more realistic treatment," though a kernel of fantasy remains under the careful working-out of ethical and material realities. Received by one contemporary critic as "boorish twaddle," SILAS MARNER has also been hailed as "the most flawless of George Eliot's works" (Joan Bennett).

SILAS MARNER: The Weaver of Raveloe

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Subject=Fine%2520bindings" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">finely bound</a> edition of the Writings &amp; Life of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=George%20Eliot&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">George Eliot</a>.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 25 volumes.</li><li>George Eliot (English).</li><li>The Writings &amp; Life by J.W. Cross.</li><li>Boston and New York:&nbsp;Houghton, Mifflin &amp; Co.,&nbsp;1908.</li><li>Illustrated frontispieces in 2 States(one colored) Volume one has an ALS By the Author.&nbsp;</li><li>Large Paper Edition, limited to 750 copies, this is #82.</li><li>Bound in three-quarters brown morocco, marbled boards and endpapers, top edges gilt, raised bands, ornate gilt on spines.</li></ul>

The Writings and Life of George Eliot

An attractively bound set of Eliot's works, all in first edition, containing all of her major novels.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 29.</li><li>Edinburgh and London:&nbsp;William Blackwood and Sons,&nbsp;1858-1885.</li><li>29 vols.</li><li>8vo. </li><li>Bound in full tan polished calf, spines stamped in gilt, with red and blue morocco title labels, by Root &amp; Son. </li><li>Some volumes without half-titles, most without terminal ads, original wrappers bound in at the rear for Daniel Deronda.</li></ul> Set Comprises:<ul><li>Scenes of Clerical Life, 1858 (2 vols.)</li><li>Adam Bede, 1859 (3 vols.)</li><li>Silas Marner, 1861</li><li>Mill on the Floss, 1860 (3 vols.)</li><li>Romola, 1863 (3 vols)</li><li>Felix Holt, 1866 (3 vols.)</li><li>Spanish Gypsy, 1868</li><li>Middlemarch, A Study of Provincial Life, 1871-2 (4 vols.)</li><li>Daniel Deronda, 1876 (4 vols.)</li><li>Theophrastus Such, 1879</li><li>Essays, 1884</li><li>Life of George Eliot, 1885 (3 vols.)</li></ul>

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