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Octavo, rust cloth, decorated in blind, gilt-lettered spines; with a touch of rubbing to extremities; expertly reinforced Japanese paper hinges; bookplates removed from front pastedowns leaving slight traces; binder's ticket. First edition in book form, first state, without the ad leaf in volume one (Carter); publisher's 16-page catalogue in volume three (citing the seventh edition of "Adam Bede"). Baker & Ross A5.1.a(1); Sadleir 816a. A handsome copy.

Published in 1860, 'The Mill on the Floss' is a realist novel by George Eliot, which features the complex and deep relationship of sister and brother Maggie and Tom Tulliver.