Adam Bede, Signed (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition. #384 of 1,000 numbered copies signed by publisher George Sproul. Vol. 1 of twelve-volume set of Eliot's complete works, the Witley Edition. Book appears unread; spine a bit wrinkled; gilt top edge. A startlingly uncommon edition of Eliot. 482 pages. Signed by Author(s).

Clean, no marks, SIGNED First Edition, 1979, from a closed bookstore. As shown, dust jacket has very slight shelf wear along edges, but book comes with a protective Mylar cover to prevent any future wear. Navy blue cover is like new with gold lettering on front and spine. Corners are sharp. Author's signature appears on front flyleaf. No marked, creased, or torn pages, with normal aging of paper over time. Book will be carefully packaged for safe delivery. Paper Dragon is a 5-Star seller of popular books and does not solicit buyer ratings. OSL6.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Percy Tarrant (illustrator). First Thus. Full page colour plates. Inscription on free fep. Spine a little dull. Dj torn top and base of spine and formerly had some tape repairs.

2 vols., 8vo., Fourth Edition, neat contemporary signature on blank preliminary; elegantly bound in contemporary full tan calf, sides with multiple frame border stopped at corners with gilt rosettes, back with five raised bands ruled in gilt, second compartments with red leather labels framed and lettered in gilt, third compartments framed and lettered in gilt, all other compartments elaborately framed and tooled in gilt, marbled edges, gilt doublures, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, a most attractive copy in wholly unrestored period binding. THE BINDING IS SIGNED ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER VERSOS. Henry Stamper (1802?-1887), master bookbinder, was an associate of Bedford, Lewis, Clarke and Morrell; indeed he may have succeeded Bedford as manager of the Lewis bindery, and his later business passed to Morrell. Examples of his work are held by the Folger Shakespeare Library and the Bodleian. [We are indebted to Laurence Worms for the foregoing information.].

Large paper edition of the works of George Eliot, with an autographed signed letter tipped in. Octavo, 25 volumes, bound in full morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, elaborate tooling to the front and rear panels, raised gilt bands, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, elaborately illustrated with tissue-guarded engravings including frontispieces in color. In near fine condition. An exceptional set. From Adam Bede to The Mill on the Floss and Silas Marner, Eliot presented the cases of social outsiders and small-town persecution. Felix Holt, the Radical and The Legend of Jubal were overtly political, and political crisis is at the heart of Middlemarch, in which she presents the stories of a number of denizens of a small English town on the eve of the Reform Bill of 1832; the novel is notable for its deep psychological insight and sophisticated character portraits. The roots of her realist philosophy can be found in her review of John Ruskin's Modern Painters in Westminster Review in 1856. Readers in the Victorian era particularly praised her books for their depictions of rural society, for which she drew on her own early experiences, and she shared with Wordsworth the belief that there was much interest and importance in the mundane details of ordinary country lives. Eliot did not, however, confine herself to her bucolic roots. Romola, an historical novel set in late 15th century Florence and touching on the lives of several real persons such as the priest Girolamo Savonarola, displays her wider reading and interests. Middlemarch, has been described as the greatest novel in the English language by Martin Amis and by Julian Barnes. From the library of Lavinia Resor Law Robertson with her armorial bookplate to the pastedown of each volume and central gilt monogram.