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George Eliot Middlemarch. A Study of Provincial Life. London & Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons, 1871 FIRST EDITION IN THE ORIGINAL PARTS, 8 volumes, 8vo (182 x 122 mm), half titles, advertisements, errata slip tipped in to part 4, publication notices tipped in to parts 5–6, publisher's 62-page catalogue bound in at the end of part 8, original printed wrappers, one half of first leaf of advertisements torn away and lacking pages 17–18 in same, occasional scattered foxing, lower wrapper and backstrip of part 1 replaced with plain green paper, top margin of upper wrapper of part 3 extended with plain green paper, lower wrapper of same detached, spines faded, split, and torn with some losses to spine ends RARE IN THE ORIGINAL PARTS. The pagination conforms to the book edition of four volumes, with each set of two parts having consecutive pagination. PROVENANCE: Sale in our New York rooms, 15 June 2006, lot 148 LITERATURE: cf. Sadleir 815

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george eliot | middlemarch, edinburgh and london, 1871, first edition in the original parts

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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