The Writings of George Eliot (25 Vols.)
by Eliot, George
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- fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/No Jacket
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Rosemont, Pennsylvania
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1908. One of 750 numbered copies, this being hand numbered copy 498. Includes The Life of George Eliot by J.W.Cross. Illustrated with full-page plates, frontispieces in color. Bound in contemporary three quarter brown morocco over brown cloth. TEG, other edges untrimmed. Spines decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt with roses and leaves in four panels with title and volume lettering in panels 2 and 6 all separated by 5 raised bands. Many unopened pages. Brown silk markers all present. A very sumptuous presentation in unusually fine condition.. Large Paper Edition. Three Quarter Leather. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Trade.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Title Page ABAA
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- Bookseller Inventory #
- WN30810
- Title
- The Writings of George Eliot (25 Vols.)
- Author
- Eliot, George
- Format/binding
- Hardcover
- Book condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Large Paper Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date published
- 1908
- Size
- 8vo
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Rosemont, Pennsylvania
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