Together, 10 volumes, 12mo (178/193 x 118/121 mm). Half-titles, numerous illustrations. (Slight toning and soiling.) Uniformly bound in later green crushed levant gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut, original cloth bound in at end of a few volumes, stamp-signed by Riviere & Son (spines sunned, a few light scuffs). Provenance: John A. Spoor (1851-1926), Chairman of the Union Stock Yards and Transit Company of Chicago, and Trustee of the Newberry Library (bookplate by Emery Walker, his sale Parke Bernet, April 1939, Lot 284). FIRST EDITIONS of Adam Bede and George Eliot's Life; FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM of Daniel Deronda.

[With:] BLACKMORE, Richard Doddridge (1825-1900). Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor. London: Sampson Low, Son, & Marston, 1869. 3 volumes, 8vo (188 x 121 mm). 20th-century maroon crushed levant gilt extra, gilt-decorated in floral motif, spines in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, stamp-signed by Root and Son (spines sunned, slight wear to joints with a few covers starting); slipcase. Provenance: Charles C. Auchincloss (1881-1961) American Lawyer and Stockbroker (bookplates, his sale Parke Bernet, 1961, Sale 2066, Lot 100). FIRST EDITION.