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William Blackwood, Edinburgh,, 1861. 8vo., First Edition, some light spotting (mainly marginal) on half a dozen leaves; original terracotta cloth, boards elaborately framed and blocked in blind, gilt back, uncut, expertly recased, a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy. Complete with the following points: 4pp advertisements (unnumbered) facing front free endpaper (sometimes found between front endpapers); 16pp publisher's catalogue (undated) at end; binder's ticket of Edmonds & Remnants mounted on rear paste-down. With the blind stamp of WH Smith, Strand, on front advertisement leaves and front free endpaper, and 4pp Subscription Library leaflet mounted on first advertisement leaf. Carter binding variant B; see Jarndyce p.24; NCBEL III/902.

'Silas Marner', published in 1861, tells the story of a reclusive weaver, who finds redemption and purpose after adopting an orphaned girl.