Books

gilt top end pages; x-lib; rare publisher offering; published as a 4 vol set around 1896 after a 3 vol set by Blackwood & Sons in 1860; a true genius in her time; marbled boards with raised spine bands, gilt lettering and emblems; gilt top end pages, no spine leans; Felix Holt and Middlemarch Vol 1 " the only large type edition" stated; set of 4 volumes; frontispieces b/w and tissue protected; corners and spine leather bound; b/w illustrations throughout; Romola 569 pages; The Mill on the Floss 522 pages; Middlemarch 401 pages; Felix Holt 150 pages; marbled endpapers.

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.