Scenes of Clerical Life
Eliot, George
MacMillan and Company, New York, 1906. First thus. Illustrations by Hugh Thompson. Hardcover, 8vo, 429 pp (v-vii, b-2e). Gilt decorations on cover and spine ever so slightly faded. Rolled spine, significantly worn at ends with some cloth loss, as well as at corners, which are bumped and bent in. Front board is bright. Back board has some stains and discolouration. Some pale foxing on endpapers. Small owner signature at top right of title page on pen.
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Why it's in the Cabin
A gorgeous, decorative gilded edition of Eliot's first novel. Part of Macmillan's Cranford series, and the first in it to include coloured illustrations.
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George Eliot
George Eliot's talent and achievements were so indisputable that her success surpassed whatever reservations people had about her being, on the one hand, a woman, and on the other, someone living outside of strict Victorian values.