May 12, 2011 - Sale 2247

Sale 2247 - Lot 249

Price Realized: $ 2,160
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
ELIOT, GEORGE (Pseud. of Mary Anne Evans Lewes). Middlemarch. 4 volumes bound from the original 8 parts. 8vo, 1/2 tan calf gilt, heavily worn, needs rebinding; original printed green front and rear wrappers bound in; all edges trimmed and marbled, a few creased corners in Volume 1, ink and pencil underlining and occasional marginalia in all volumes, scattered light rubbing and some toning, mostly to wrappers; all half-titles and errata slip in Part IV present; no advertisements (other than those on wrappers) or catalogue. Sadleir 815 (for first book edition). first edition. sold as is. Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1871-72