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1898 limited (copy 123/500) Holly Lodge Edition, Dana Estes and Co. (Boston, Massachusetts), two 6 1/8 x 8 3/8 inches tall green cloth hardcover volumes, no dust jackets, printed paper labels to spines, top page edges gilt, fore and bottom page edges untrimmed, printed on laid paper, illustrated with a dozen full-page engravings with tissue guards, 375, 375 pp. (750 pages total.) Slight soiling, rubbing and edgewear to covers, with moderate age toning to spines. Many unopened signatures (preferred by some collectors), easily remedied with a paper knife or edge of a playing card. Otherwise, a very good to near fine set - clean, bright and unmarked - in a handsome printing of this classic. Note that this is a heavy and oversized set, so additional postage will be required for international or priority orders. ~X~ [4.5P] The first novel by leading English Victorian author George Eliot, the pen name of Mary Ann Evans (1819-1880), first published in 1859. It was published pseudonymously, even though Evans was a well-published and highly respected scholar of her time. The novel has remained in print ever since and is regularly used in university studies of 19th-century English literature. She described the novel as 'a country story full of the breath of cows and scent of hay.' Of the work, Charles Dickens wrote: 'The whole country life that the story is set in, is so real, and so droll and genuine, and yet so selected and polished by art, that I cannot praise it enough to you.'. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers X-0142-14151
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