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1898 limited (copy 123/500) Holly Lodge Edition, Dana Estes and Co. (Boston, Massachusetts), two 6 1/8 x 8 3/8 inches tall green cloth hardcover volumes, no dust jackets, printed paper labels to spines, top page edges gilt, fore and bottom page edges untrimmed, printed on laid paper, illustrated with a half dozen full-page engravings with tissue guards, 353, vi, 369 pp. (728 pages total.) Very slight soiling, rubbing and edgewear to covers, with age toning to spines. Many unopened signatures (preferred by some collectors), easily remedied with a paper knife or edge of a playing card. Otherwise, a very good to near fine set - clean, bright and unmarked - in a handsome printing of this classic. Note that this is a heavy and oversized set, so additional postage will be required for international or priority orders. ~SSS~ [4.5P] George Eliot's first published work of fiction, a collection of three short stories, published in book form. It was the first of her works to be released under her famous pseudonym. The stories were first published in Blackwood's Magazine over the course of the year 1857, initially anonymously, before being released as a two-volume set by Blackwood and Sons in January 1858. The three stories are set during the last twenty years of the eighteenth century and the first half of the nineteenth century over a fifty-year period. The stories take place in and around the fictional town of Milby in the English Midlands. Each of the Scenes concerns a different Anglican clergyman, but is not necessarily centered on him. Eliot examines, among other things, the effects of religious reform and the tension between the Established and the Dissenting Churches on the clergymen and their congregations, and draws attention to various social issues, such as poverty, alcoholism and domestic violence. George Eliot was the pen name of Mary Ann Evans (1819-1880), English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. Seller Inventory # SSS-1232-14135
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