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Lot 168
Sale 1022 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
May 4, 2022
9:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$600 -
800
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$375
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Lot Description
ELIOT, George (“Mary Anne Evans Lewes”) (1819-1880). The Mill on the Floss. Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1860.
3 volumes, 8vo. Half-titles, 16pp. publisher's advertisements at end of vol. III. (Some spotting, toning, and staining.) Publisher’s orange-brown diagonal ripple-grain blind-stamped cloth, spine gilt-lettered by Edmonds & Remnant with their ticket (spines darkened, slight wear to extremities, some very minor staining); folding case. Provenance: Sold Barker Shiffnal Bookseller (bookseller’s embossed ticket).
FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE in Carter's variant B binding, with no advertisement inserted in vol. I and 16pp. publisher's advertisements at end of vol. III. Carter pp.110-111; Sadleir 816.
Property from the Annette Perlman Trust