Eliot, George (pseud. Mary Ann Evans) — George Eliot's Works. [24 Volumes Complete]

Cambridge, Estes and Lauriat, 1893. Rosehill Limited Edition, #986 of 1000. (Large Paper Edition). Brown cloth with paper labels. Top edge gilt. Printed tissue guards. Illus. with etched plates and frontispieces from the works of Frederic Dielman, E, H. Garett, R. Swain Gifford, Frank Merrill, C. O. Murray, W. L. Taylor, and others. 8vo. In addition to the novels, essays, and poems by one of the greatest of the 19th century English novelists, whose "luminous intelligence" Leavis praised, the set also includes the three volume "George Eliot's Life as Related in Her Letters and Journals, arranged and edited by her husband, J. W. Cross. Spine ends a bit flattened, small tears to the head of spine on two volumes, dampstain to the fore edge and top edge of one volume, to fore edge of another, and to the boards and end papers of a third volume. Chips to four labels all of which are a bit rubbed, but titles legible. Fourteen of the volumes unopened (untrimmed), interiors very tight and clean throughout. Overall about a very good set.