1899 The Works of George Eliot (The Hawarden Press Edition de Luxe)

Description

Illustrated, Limited Edition, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

The Hawarden Press Edition de Luxe, limited to 500 numbered copies, of which is number 391. 

Complete in twenty volumes. 

Uniformly bound in the publisher's original cloth. 

Illustrated with monochrome plates to each volume, including a frontispiece. 

George Eliot was the pseudonym used by English Victorian writer, Mary Ann Evans. She was best known for her realism, sense of place and detailed depiction of the countryside.

Throughout her career, Eliot presented the cases of social outsiders and small-town persecution, with political crisis often at the heart of her novels. 

This presents itself in one of her best known novels, 'Middlemarch', a story following two sisters, Dorothea and Celia Brooke in a fictional midlands town.

As well as her works of fiction, this set contains her collection of poems as well as her thoughts on the philosopher Theophrastus and various other essays. 

The entirety of this set comprises the following volumes:

Adam Bede (in two volumes) - Five plates to Vol I and four plates to Vol II 
The Mill on the Floss (in two volumes) - Three plates to Vol II 
Silas Marner, The Lifted Veil and Brother Jacob - Three plates 
Romola (in two volumes, together with Impressions of Theophrastus Such and Miscellaneous Essays) - Six plates to Vol I and six plates to Vol II
Felix Holt, the Radical (in two volumes) - Five plates to Vol I and three plates to Vol II 
Middlemarch (in three volumes) - Three plate to Vol I, four plates to Vol II and three plates to Vol III
Daniel Deronda (in three volumes) - Four plates to Vol I, four plates to Vol II and four plates to Vol III
Scenes of a Clerical Life (in two volumes) - Four plates to Vol I
Life and Letters (in two volumes) - Arranged and edited by J. W. Cross. Four plates to Vol I and three plates to Vol II 
Poems - Sixteen plates

Collated, complete.