George Eliot's Life As Related in Her Letters and Journals. Arranged and Edited by Her Husband. In Three Volumes.

Cross, J. W.

Published by Edinburgh and London William Blackwood and Sons 1885, 1885

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xiv, [3], 2-484; viii, 449 [4]; vii, 470 + erratapp. 3 vols. Octavo. Brown cloth covered boards. Gilt lettering on spine with black decoration on spine and front cover. Light bumping to ends of spine and corners, with some professional restoration done. A small amount of light rubbing and discolouration to boards; some fading to spines. Black endpapers with only a little wear at gutters and some mild puckering. Each volume contains A bookplate and label from the "Salford Borough Royal Museum and Library, Peel Park- Purchased July 1885" affixed to the front pastedown. B/W full page illustrated plates (6 in first volume, 2 in second and 3 in third- including the frontis of each; the last one in the 2nd volume is a facsimile of her handwriting). Errata sheet at back of volume 3. Some foxing to first couple of pages of volumes I and II (including frontis and title pages). Some of the pages display some light wrippling with some mild wear and creasing to the outer edges of some of the pages in each volume. Other then this is text block is clean and tight with minimal staining throughout. This is a lovely set. good to very good Mary Anne (alternatively Mary Ann or Marian) Evans (22 November 1819 ?22 December 1880), better known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, journalist and translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: George Eliot's Life As Related in Her Letters and Journals. Arranged and Edited by Her Husband. In Three Volumes.
• Publisher: Edinburgh and London William Blackwood and Sons 1885
• Publication Date: 1885
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: good to very good
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