The True Story of George Eliot: In Relation to "Adam Bede" Giving the Real Life History of the More Prominent Characters

A smartly bound early edition of this illustrated history of Adam Bede by George Eliot. Early edition, published the same year as the first. Illustrated with a frontispiece and eighty-six images from photographs. Collated complete. A history of the characters and author of Adam Bede, the first novel by Mary Ann Evans, known by her pen name George Eliot, an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. With chapters on the evolution of George Eliot, the home of the Bedes, fiction founded on fact, biographical commentaries, and more. Written by William Mottram, grand-nephew of Adam and Seth Bede and cousin of Mary Ann Evans. Bound in half calf with marbled boards. Externally, very smart with light wear and minor fading to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd spot or handling mark. Very Good Indeed.