Mill on the Floss THREE VOLUMES
George Eliot
Published by William Blackwood, Edinburgh & London, 1860
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Cloth
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8vo. 1860. 1st ed. 3 vols. 1. viii(1)-361(1) plus z6 blank. 2. viii(1)-319(1). 3. viii(1)-313(1) plus 16pp publishers' ads. Uncut in original cinnamon ripple-grain decorative cloth. Gilt spines. Edmonds and Remnants ticket in vol 1. Gilt lettering on spines unevenly dulled and corners bumped. Spines relaid with matching reinforcement paper strip on inner hinges. Text age- toned, some edges a little friable. CARTER first state text, without ad lf in vol 1, 'B' binding (no priority assigned). INSCRIBED 'FROM THE AUTHOR' on the half title of vol 1 in her hand. Of all the Victorian giants.she probably presented the fewest books. With 'Scenes of Clerical Life', George Eliot had requested that the 8 presentation copies be sent with the inscription 'from the author'.'I don't mean to send the Mill on the Floss to anyone, except to Dickens.if YOU present any, I would be glad if you would particularly enjoin 'from the publisher', to be written in them that they may not be imagined to have come from me'. (George Eliot to John Blackwood 22/3/1860.) BAKER and ROSS (A.5.1.a) locate 4 inscribed copies. 1. to Dickens 'from the author'. 2. to Dr. Deakin 'from the author'. 3. Wolff (2060) copy with named presentation inscription, presentation page reinserted and recased with new endpapers without z6. 4. 'from the author' sold Sothebys 27/6/1925 'recased and foxed' - the last inscribed Mill on the Floss to appear in auction. The 4 libraries with major holdings of George Eliot (Beinecke/Yale,Pierpont Morgan, British Library and National Library of Scotland) do not have inscribed copies of Mill on the Floss. As such, a VERY SCARCE manifestation of this title. 'A reimagining of Eliot's strained relationship with her much-loved brother, the Mill on the Floss represents Eliot's most autobiographical work'. Images available on request. Seller Inventory # 001553
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Title: Mill on the Floss THREE VOLUMES
Publisher: William Blackwood, Edinburgh & London
Publication Date: 1860
Binding: Cloth
Condition: Good/very Good
Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)
Edition: 1st Edition
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THE MILL ON THE FLOSS In Three Volumes. Volume III (3) ONLY
Published by
William Blackwood, GB, 1860
Used
First Edition
Seller: Richard Sylvanus Williams (Est 1976), WINTERTON, United Kingdom
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Condition: nrFine. 1st Edition. DISBOUND TEXT (No covers). 183 x 116 mm. Should be 8 and 314 pages. BUT lacking halftitle. No advertisements. EXCEPTIONALLY CLEAN TIGHT TEXT most suitable to rebind. Seller Inventory # r004.154
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THE MILL ON THE FLOSS In Three Volumes. Volume II (2) ONLY
Published by
William Blackwood, GB, 1860
Used
First Edition
Seller: Richard Sylvanus Williams (Est 1976), WINTERTON, United Kingdom
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Condition: nrFine. 1st Edition. DISBOUND TEXT (No covers). 183 x 116 mm. Should be 8 and 320 pages. BUT lacking halftitle. No advertisements. EXCEPTIONALLY CLEAN TIGHT TEXT most suitable to rebind. Seller Inventory # r004.153
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The Mill on the Floss in three volumes
Published by
William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London, 1860
Used
Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition, second state. 3 volume set. 20.5 x 13.5 cm. Octavos. 361 [1]pp, vi 319pp, 313pp 16pp ads. Carter's A binding, bound in cinnamon ripple-grain cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Binder's ticket "Burn" at end of volume 1. First edition, second state with the advertisement leaf at the end of volume 1. Advertisement for Adam Bede "Seventh edition" on p 6 of the ads in volume 3, some later "The Mill on the Floss" printings had "eighth edition". Boards a bit cocked. Scattered foxing. Previous owner's 20th century bookplate on front fixed endpaper of each volume. Bit of discoloration ot the tops of the front covers of each volume. Sadleir XIX Century Fiction 816. Seller Inventory # 70807
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George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss Finely Bound 1860 First Edition in Three Volumes
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First Edition
Seller: Max Rambod Inc, Woodland Hills, CA, U.S.A.
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Eliot, George. The Mill on the Floss. London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1860. First Edition, first printing. 993 pages total, 361 in vol. I and 319 in vol. II, and 313 in vol. III. 7.5" x 5". The second novel by English writer Mary Ann Evans, under her pen name George Eliot. The Mill on the Floss follows siblings Maggie and Tom Tulliver from childhood to young adulthood as they reckon with the loss of the family mill, their father's alcoholism, and Maggie's prospects in marriage. Eliot wrote seven full length novels in addition to her short stories and scholarly works, among them Middlemarch, now considered one of the greatest 19th century English works of fiction. Uniformly bound in deep turquoise leather by the famous binder Bayntun. Title, author, and date stamped in gilt on spines. Douglas Clan book plate with family crest "Jamais Arriere" ("Never Behind") to the inside of each cover (pastedown). Spines uniformly sunned to an olive-green shade. Ribbon markers. Binding is beautiful, tight, and square, with all hinges firm and internally clean and bright. Inside covers have gilted dentelle borders and marbled endpaper. A beautiful crushed morocco set in near fine condition. An exquisite set. Seller Inventory # 20716
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The Mill on the Floss. In Three Volumes.
Published by
Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1860, 1860
Used
First Edition
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
First edition, first state, of her second full-length novel, which sold 4,600 copies within four days. Eliot's authorship of Adam Bede was uncovered soon following its publication the previous year, and the immediate success of The Mill on the Floss dispelled her anxieties over the public response to her books now that her identity and gender were public knowledge. This copy has the first volume's final blank, which is "not present in most copies" (Baker & Ross). The first state, as here, has the prelims of Volume I without the advert leaf and its conjugate blank, which the bibliographers believe were later inserted in some copies. The volumes are in Carter's "B" binding, distinguished by features such as the shorter gilt device on the spines and the binder's ticket of Edmonds & Remnants, as opposed to Burns's, on the rear pastedown of Volume I. Baker & Ross A5.1.a(1); Carter, pp. 110-11; Parrish, pp. 14-15; Sadleir 816a; Wolff 2060. 3 vols, octavo. With publisher's 16-page catalogue at end of vol. III. Original brown diagonal ripple-grain cloth (Carter's binding "B"), spine lettered and decorated in gilt, decorative blind borders on covers, yellow coated endpapers, edges untrimmed, binder's ticket of Edmonds & Remnants on vol. I rear pastedown. Housed in custom black quarter morocco folding box by the Heritage Bindery. W. H. Smith blind stamp on vol. I front free endpaper; vol. III, seemingly from another set, with armorial bookplate. Cloth generally bright, bumps to edges, with minor wear, vol. I with small mark to front cover and front inner hinge split, vol. III spine lightly darkened and with inner hinges partially cracked and neatly stabilized, foxing to contents of vols I-II. A very good set in the well-preserved original cloth. Seller Inventory # 180734
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