The Works of George Eliot, The Complete Illustrated Cabinet Edition

George Eliot. THE WORKS OF GEORGE ELIOT. (24) volumes (complete). New York: Merrill and Baker, 1895. Illustrated Cabinet Edition; limited large paper edition with extra illustrations, no. 97 out of 200 numbered sets. Three-quarters green morocco over marbled paper-covered boards, with gilt flowers and lettering in compartments on the spine, raised bands, marbled endpapers, and top edge gilt; stamped "MACDONALD - N.Y." on the front free endpaper verso. 8vo; all with frontispieces, full-page illustrations, and captioned tissue guards. Including: Middlemarch (3 vols.); The Mill on the Floss (2 vols.); Adam Bede (2 vols.); Daniel Deronda (3 vols.); Felix Holt (2 vols.); Romola (3 vols.); Scenes of Clerical Life, etc. (2 vols.); Silas Marner bound with The Lifted Veil and Brother Jacob; Impressions of Theophrastus Such bound with miscellaneous essays; two volumes of poetry; and three volumes on George Eliot's life.

Each 8 1/8 x 5 7/8 in.

From the Estate of the late Peggy Augustus, Old Keswick, Virginia

Bookplate of Albert Anthony Augustus.

Leather browned, occasional scuff, and some light wear to extremities including a couple with chipping to head of spine; interiors with light toning, some minor edge wear from opening the leaves (one leaf with a larger tear at outer margin), expected offsetting, and occasional light grime, soiling, or handling wear; a few volumes with some scattered foxing, a couple with a small repair to a leaf, and one with a sticker of The Burrows Brothers Company in Cleveland, Ohio; all plates and tissue guards present, and many leaves still unopened. A finely bound, very good or better set.