Eliot, George [Evans, Mary Ann]
£400
Auction: 10 June 2009 at 12:00 BST
Description
The mill on the floss. Edinburgh, 1860. First edition, 8vo, 3 volumes, half-titles, advertisement leaf at end of volume one, publisher’s catalogue at end of volume 3, original orange-brown cloth stamped in blind, spines lettered in gilt, [Baker & Ross A5.1.a; Sadleir 816], some minor spotting and browning, new endpapers, minor wear to bindings, circulating library labels removed from upper covers; [Idem] Romola. London,1863. First edition in book form, 8vo, 3 volumes, leaf of advertisements at end of volume 2, nineteenth-century crushed green morocco by Riviere, double gilt fillet borders on covers, spine tooled gilt in compartments, gilt turn-ins, top edge gilt, original cloth bound in at end of each volume, morocco-lipped slipcase, [Baker & Ross A7.2], spines lightly sunned (6)