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Eliot, George. The Mill on the Floss. London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1860. First Edition, first printing. 993 pages total, 361 in vol. I and 319 in vol. II, and 313 in vol. III. 7.5" x 5". The second novel by English writer Mary Ann Evans, under her pen name George Eliot. The Mill on the Floss follows siblings Maggie and Tom Tulliver from childhood to young adulthood as they reckon with the loss of the family mill, their father's alcoholism, and Maggie's prospects in marriage. Eliot wrote seven full length novels in addition to her short stories and scholarly works, among them Middlemarch, now considered one of the greatest 19th century English works of fiction. Uniformly bound in deep turquoise leather by the famous binder Bayntun. Title, author, and date stamped in gilt on spines. Douglas Clan book plate with family crest “Jamais Arriere” (“Never Behind”) to the inside of each cover (pastedown). Spines uniformly sunned to an olive-green shade. Ribbon markers. Binding…

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.