Middlemarch, Signed (8 results)

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Maroon cloth, silver titles to spine, illustrated dust-jacket. Endpaper maps. Fine SIGNED copy. Signed by Author(s).

pfas160 This is an original 6" x 4" hand signed photo for Rachel Power who played Mary Garth in Middlemarch and made regular appearances as Nicola Marsh in The Bill who has personally signed the photo where her signature rests perfectly accompanying the image in pristine condition?

Condition: As New. CHAU0615? A stunning large 8" x 6" hand signed photo for Rachel Power, best known for playing Mary Slater Hamilton in all 10 episodes of No Bananas, she was in 7 episodes of Holding On, and was Mary Garth in Middlemarch for 6 episodes, who has personally autographed the souvenir where her signature rests perfectly accompanying her portrait in absolute mint condition.

Condition: As New. STB016? This is stunning collectors?official limited Queen Mother?first day cover hand signed by historic actress Juliet Aubrey where her signature rests perfectly accompanying the special hand commemorative franks.? Her signature rests perfectly accompanying the special hand commemorative franks officially certified by the publishers?with full hallmarking of the series in absolute brand new mint condition. You wont source better.Juliet Emma Aubrey is a British actress of theatre, film, and television. She won the 1995 BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress for playing Dorothea in the BBC serial Middlemarch. She is also known for her role as Helen Cutter in the ITV series Primeval.?

Original-Broschur. Condition: Gut. Europäische Hochschulschriften, Reihe XIV, Angelsächsische Sprache und Literatur, Band 204. - Gut erhalten, sauberes Exemplar. Widmung des Verfassers.

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.

8vo. [pp. 12]. wrs. First Edition, privately printed for the author, this #12 of an unspecified numbered of copies signed by the Sitwell.

A New Edition. 4 vols: 410, 377, 384 and 371 pages respectively. Second British Edition in book form, following the first edition and the Berlin published Asher Copyright Edition. Essentially, a straight reprint of the first edition, prior to the revisions and amendments of the 1874 one-volume edition. With exceptional provenance, from the library of celebrated literary socialite, poet and bibliophile, Frederick Locker, a friend of Eliot and her long-time partner, George Henry Lewes. There is a presentation slip "from the author" tipped-on the front endpaper of Vol 2, indicating that Locker received the set directly from Eliot or via the publisher at her request. To the rear endpaper of the same volume there is a handwritten note from mutual friend, fellow author Anthony Trollope, on 39, Montague Square headed notepaper, dated December 3rd 1878, 4 days after the death of Lewes, regarding the latter's funeral at Highgate Cemetery. Locker's bookplate is to the front pastedown of each volume, 3 different versions, all with his "Fear God & Fear Nought" motto, that designed by Henry Stacy Marks R. A. to vols 1 & 3, the Kate Greenaway iteration to Vol 4 and probably the earliest, an uncredited version to vol 2. Locker was Greenaway's mentor and she designed bookplates for his whole family. To the rear pastedown of volume 2, opposite Trollope's note, is Lewes's Times Obituary. The books are bound in the publisher's green cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt and black, all 4 have been neatly re-backed, with the spine strips overlaid onto similarly toned green cloth and repairs to all gutters, the cloth is slightly marked and rubbed, with bumping to the corners. The repairs were commissioned recently, the books previously in their original state having reached an insupportable state of dilapidation. The text blocks are slightly foxed, marked and toned with some dog-eared page corners and minor damage to a few page edges. Locker's library was sold in 1905 to an American book dealer, presumably including this set. Volumes from the library re-emerge on the market not infrequently, and confirm that he was often in the habit of annotating or adding related ephemera to his books. Locker notes in his 1896 volume of memoirs 'My Confidences': "When I attended Mr. Lewes's funeral in Highgate Cemetery, we were a very small party in the mortuary chapel, not more than twelve persons". That the gathering was so select is unsurprising, as due to the unconventional nature of Eliot & Lewes's relationship, they had been largely shunned by polite society until shortly before Lewes's death. Regarding Eliot, he writes: "She had a measured way of conversing, restrained but impressive [] Then though she had a very gentle voice and manner, there was, every now and then, just a suspicion of meek satire in her talk.". A remarkable and poignant association set of Eliot's best-loved work, connecting four notable literary figures of the nineteenth century, and in the Trollope note link them to perhaps the most tragic event of Eliot's later years, the death of the love of her life, Lewes.