Lot 269
Eliot, George
Middlemarch
Auction: Books & Manuscripts | 01 October 2026 from 10am | Lots 253 to 285
Description
Edinburgh: William Blackwood, 1871-2. First edition, 4 volumes, 8vo, contemporary half calf, comb-marbled sides, endpapers and edges, bookplate to front boards of each volume, vol. I with additional bookplate to rear pastedown and short tear to top margin p. 35, vol. I pencil annotation to front free endpaper, vol. III ink stain pp. 186-7, some occasional foxing and marks to all volumes [Sadleir, vol. 1 p. 124] (4)
Footnote
Bookplate of William Patrick Adam (1823-1881), Blair Adam Library. Adam was a member of Parliament for the Liberal Party, and Governor of Madras from December 1880 until his death in May 1881. Blair Adam House (also known as Blairadam) was built by his great-grandfather, the eminent architect William Adam, in the 1730s, and is still owned by the family today.