ELIOT GEORGE The Mill on the Floss

Sale 2366 - Lot 91

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ELIOT, GEORGE. The Mill on the Floss. 3 volumes. Half-titles. 16 pages publisher's advertisements at end. 8vo, original cinnamon cloth, bound by Burn, with their ticket in vol. 1, covers decoratively stamped in blind and spines lettered in gilt, spines uniformly darkened, corners soft with only light exposure, few minor surface marks; some abrading confined to hinge gutters of first volume only, Christopher Clark Geest bookplates to front pastedowns. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1860

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first edition, first state. Carter's variant binding "A", without the inserted advertisement in vol. I (demonstrated by Carter to be a later insertion); and the final blank in volume I not present as in most copies. Eliot's third novel, in the less common binding. Carter pp. 110-11; Parrish 15; Sadleir 816.