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Item 346202Scenes of Clerical Life.

Eliot, George.

Price: $20,000

Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1859. First edition in book form. First edition in book form of George Eliot's first published work of fiction, collecting three short stories previously serialized in Blackwood's Magazine from January to November 1857. Sadleir, writing in 1951, remarks that the book "in any..... Read More Item Details for Scenes of Clerical Life Add to Wish List

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Item 324319Two Autograph Letters, signed ("Marian E. Lewes") to Frederic, 1st Baron Leighton, 1862 [WITH] Romola.

Eliot, George (pseudonym of Mary Anne Evans).

Price: $18,000

Sussex: Sept. 10. 62; June [10], 1862. Includes first "De Luxe Edition", number 971 of 1000 numbered copies: the first book edition with complete Leighton illustrations. Two detailed letters from Eliot to her illustrator, Frederic Leighton, demonstrating her extensive research into Italian history for her novel Romola, her anxiety over..... Read More Item Details for Two Autograph Letters, signed ("Marian E. Lewes") to Frederic, 1st Baron Leighton, 1862 [WITH] Romola Add to Wish List

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Item 323787The Works of George Eliot.

Eliot, GEORGE.

Price: $1,250

Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1880. Cabinet Edition. Read More Item Details for The Works of George Eliot Add to Wish List

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Item 320913The Writings of... Together with the Life of J. W. Cross.

Eliot, George.

Price: $3,000

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co, 1908. Large Paper Edition. Number 155 of 750 copies. This set includes all of the novels as well as Scenes from Clerical Life; The Lifted Veil; Brother Jacob; Impressions of Theophrastus Such; The Spanish Gypsy; Poems; Essays and Leaves from a Note-Book; Essays..... Read More Item Details for The Writings of... Together with the Life of J. W. Cross Add to Wish List

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Item 315508Collection of first editions of her major works, uniformly bound.

Eliot, George.

Price: $12,000

Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1858-1885. An attractively bound set of Eliot's works, all in first edition, containing all of her major novels: Scenes of Clerical Life, 1858 (2 vols.); Adam Bede, 1859 (3 vols.); Silas Marner, 1861; Mill on the Floss, 1860 (3 vols.); Romola, 1863 (3..... Read More Item Details for Collection of first editions of her major works, uniformly bound Add to Wish List

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