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The Mill on the Floss: Volume II and III
by Eliot, George
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
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About This Item
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1860. Book. Good. Half-Leather. First Edition. 185mm Tall, 12mo. Vol II vi;319 pages. Wear to cover corners and edges. Joints of spine worn and cracked at top and tail. Hinge of front free endpaper cracked. Occasional foxing on text pages. Browning marks on pages 32 and 33, also heavy browning with circular brown mark 130 to 133 on lower half of pages. Vol III vi; 313 pages. Covers in similar condition to Vol II but with a little loss at top of spine; a little more occasional foxing on text pages.
Synopsis
GEORGE ELIOT was born in Nuneaton on November 22, 1819. Baptized Mary Anne Evans, Eliot chose to write using a male pen name. She was sent away to school but returned when her mother died in 1836. She later moved to Coventry with her father. After her father's death she became the Assistant Editor of the Westminster Review in 1851. She also met George Henry Lewes this year and they became partners for the rest of his life. Lewes was already married, although he and his wife both considered their relationship to be an open one, but he and Eliot set up home together, much to the dismay of polite London society. In 1857 Eliot published Amos Barton in Blackwood's Magazine and in 1859 her novel Adam Bede was published to great acclaim. Her first attempt to write Middlemarch , her most famous novel, ended in failure. Abandoning it, she began a short novella entitled Miss Brooke which was eventually integrated into the final version of Middlemarch . The novel was published serially in eight parts in 1871. Lewes died in 1878 and Eliot married again in 1880. Her husband, John Walter Cross was an American who was twenty years her junior. George Eliot died on December 22, 1880 at 4 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea and is buried in Highgate Cemetery next to Lewes.
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- Bookseller
- Andmeister Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005332
- Title
- The Mill on the Floss: Volume II and III
- Author
- Eliot, George
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- William Blackwood and Sons
- Place of Publication
- Edinburgh and London
- Date Published
- 1860
- Size
- 185mm Tall, 12mo
- Keywords
- Literature
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- Literature;
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Cracked
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
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