Fall Great Estates Curated Auction

George Eliot Middlemarch First Edition

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Start price: $400

Estimated price: $800 - $1,200

Buyer's premium: 28%

Sales Tax: On buyer's premium only

George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) (England, 1819-1880). Middlemarch. A Study of Provincial Life, in 4 volumes. First edition, 1871-1872. Publisher William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London, printed by William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh. Marbled boards and red spines and corners with gilt lettering. Inscriptions dated 1893-1894. 5" x 7".

All with wear to boards and spines, shelf wear, wear to corners and top edges, foxing through first leaves of all and minor foxing intermittently throughout all, writing in ink and pencil on front endpapers and half title pages.

Provenance: Harrington Bros. Antiquarian Booksellers, Kings Road, Chelsea, London, 8/9/1995; private collection, New York City; thence by descent.

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