The Mill on the Floss by GEORGe Eliot - 1860

William Blackwood and Sons, 1860. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book Description: Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1860. First Edition, First Printing, First State, First Binding of "The Mill on the Floss" in the Original ClothELIOT, George. The Mill on the Floss. In Three Volumes. Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1860. First edition, first printing, presumed first state. Three octavo volumes (7 13/16 x 4 13/16 inches; 198 x 123 mm.). vi, [1, fly-title], [1, blank], 361, [3, blank]; [8], 319, [1, blank]; [8], 313, [1, blank] pp. plus 16 pp. publisher’s advertisements at the end of Volume III. Volume I without the inserted leaf advertising Scenes of Clerical Life and Adam Bede and its conjugate blank in the preliminaries of Volume I.Original orange-brown diagonal ripple-grain cloth (Carter’s variant A) with covers decoratively stamped in blind and spines decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt. Original pale yellow coated endpapers. rare three volume set first printing.