First Edition in Original Cloth
Felix Holt the Radical. In Three Volumes.
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1866.
First edition. Three octavo volumes (7 5/8 x 4 3/4 inches; 194 x 122 mm). [iv], [1]-303, [1, blank]; [2], [1]-290; [iv], [1]- 283, [1, blank], [4, publisher's advertisements] pp. Half-title present in volume I and III.
Original reddish brown sand-grain cloth with blind-stamped borders on covers and spines stamped and lettered in gilt (Carter’s “B” binding). Mostly unopened. Pale yellow-coated endpapers. Light toning to half-title of volume I. An exceptionally bright, clean set. Housed in a cloth chemise and quarter green morocco slipcase.
"Set in 1832 in Loamshire, [the book] vividly evokes the political ferment and corrupt electioneering tactics of the times." (Oxford Companion to English Literature)
Carter, Binding Variants, pp. 111-112. Sadleir 814. Woolf 2058. Parrish.
HBS 64972.
$3,500.
Price: $3,500.00
Item #64972