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Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1861. First edition of this classic work in Carter's binding "A", which is the preferred and much more elaborate, with Blackwood and Carlyle ads at the rear (which only appear in some copies). Octavo, original orange cloth. In near fine condition. "The finest of [Eliot's] studies of humble rural life" (Stanford Companion, 211). "Overwhelming are the glorious qualities which make [Eliot] a supreme novelist in an age of great novelists: her penetrating sympathy, her deep knowledge of humanity, her descriptive power, her lambent humor, the reflection of her extraordinary mind" (Kunitz and Haycraft).

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