Jun 17, 2015 - Sale 2388

Sale 2388 - Lot 128

Price Realized: $ 750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
ELIOT, GEORGE. The Mill on the Floss. 3 volumes. Half-titles. 16 pages publisher's advertisements at end. 8vo, original cinnamon cloth, bound by Edmonds & Remnants, with their ticket in vol. 1, covers stamped in blind and spines lettered in gilt, corners soft, few areas of mild wrinkling; rear hinges of vols. 2 and 3 tender; housed together in chemise and slipcase. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1860

Additional Details

first edition, first state. Carter's variant binding "B", without the 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. Carter pp. 110-11; Parrish 15; Sadleir 816.