Scenes of Clerical Life

by George Eliot, Mary Ann Evans

$9,500 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

First edition

Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1858. First edition, first printing. Rare in the publisher's original maroon cloth binding with boards decorated in blind and spine lettered in gilt. Very Good with rubbing to cloth and sunning to spines, front cover of Volume I lightly spotted. Previous owner names to front free endpaper and half-title page of Volume II. Pages toned. A lovely copy of the Eliot's first book,

• Binding: Hardcover

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