Writings

George ELIOT

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“A SUPREME NOVELIST IN THE AGE OF GREAT NOVELISTS”: BEAUTIFUL 25-VOLUME ILLUSTRATED LARGE-PAPER EDITION OF GEORGE ELIOT’S WORKS, WITH A SIGNED AUTOGRAPH LETTER TO HER HALF SISTER BOUND IN

ELIOT, George. The Writings. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1908. Twenty-five volumes. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter brown crushed morocco, raised bands, elaborately gilt-decorated spines, marbled boards and endpapers, top edges gilt, uncut and largely unopened.

Splendid large-paper edition of Eliot’s writings, number 101 of only 750 sets produced, with over 150 illustrations including hand-colored frontispieces in double-suite, with a part of a signed autograph letter by Eliot bound into Volume I.

Eliot, who pioneered the method of psychological analysis characteristic of modern fiction, has been praised for the qualities that make her "a supreme novelist in an age of great novelists" (Kunitz and Haycraft, 212). The illustrations reproduce original drawings by Charles Brock, Frederick Pegram, Ambrose Dudley, Henry Paget Archibald Hartrick and others, as well as photogravures by C. E. Walmsley, many taken for this edition, of English estates and countryside featured in Eliot's writings. The frontispieces appear in double suite, one of each beautifully hand-colored. Includes all of Eliot's major novels, as well as the essays and letters. With an extensive biographical and critical notice. The clipped portion of a letter, to her half sister Francis (Fanny) Broughton, bound in Volume I, reads, "Perhaps the nearest thing to chatting with me would be to read something I have written, and if you happen to fall in with the January No. of The Westminster you will probably like to read the first article on Heinrich Heine for the sake of sister Polly [verso] … are pretty much ___ in good spirits. Give my kindest remembrance to dear Henry and believe me always, dear Fanny, Your affectionate ___, Marian Evans."

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