Books

3 vols., 8vo, full brown crushed morocco with dentelles, gilt tops, by Bumpus. London: Blackwood, 1876. First Edition. Bound without ads. three volumes have half-titles, and each has a bookplate.

Published in 1859, 'Adam Bede' is the first novel by George Eliot. It was an immediate success and praised for its realistic and rustic depiction of 19th-century rural life.