George Eliot [Mary Ann Evans] — The MILL on the Floss

Edinburgh and London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1860. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition, first impression of George Eliot's renowned novel, complete in three volumes. The first edition, first impression of this work. Bound in the original publisher's variant B binding (A5.1.a in Baker & Ross). End papers renewed. Original half titles to all volumes and the sixteen page publisher's advertisement to the rear of volume III, as called for. Following the success of Adam Bede in 1859, Mary Ann Evans published this, her second novel, once again under the pseudonym George Eliot. The novel follows two siblings, living at Dorlcote Mill on the River Floss, over a period of about ten to fifteen years. The story primarily explores the siblings' fluctuating relationship as well as the multiple platonic and romantic relationships Maggie, the younger of the two siblings, experiences. Many consider Eliot to be the greatest English female writer of the Victorian era, with 'Middlemarch' one of the greatest novel in the English Language. This copy with the bookplate of George Mallows Freeman to the front paste down of volume I. Bound in the original publisher's variant B binding. End papers renewed. Externally, smart. Light soiling to cloth with scattered marks. Bumping with minor loss to very extremities. Additional bumps to cloth at head and tail of spine with a few small closed tears. Very slight blistering to spine of vol II. Bookplate to front pastedown vol I. Hinges starting at boards with split to lower front hinge of vol III, holding firm. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. A touch age toned. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .