ELIOT GEORGE Silas Marner The Weaver of Raveloe

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ELIOT, GEORGE. Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe. 16 pages publisher's catalogue, 4 pages advertisements at end. 8vo, original blindstamped cinnamon cloth, spine gilt, bound by Burn with their ticket, slight lean, spine darkened a little, minor rubbing to spine tips; one signature slightly sprung, contemporary ownership signature to top of front flyleaf, Joan and Fred Berne bookplate to front pastedown. London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1861

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first edition, first issue. Carter's "A" binding. The 4 page Carlyle ads (dated January, 1861) inserted after the publisher's catalogue (as in Wolff's copy; in Sadlier's copy these were inserted before the catalogue, and in some copies they appear at the beginning or not at all). Sadleir 819; Wolff 2063; Carter p. 112.