George Eliot’s First Works of Fiction
Scenes of Clerical Life.
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1858.
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ELIOT, George. Scenes of Clerical Life. In two volumes. Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1858.
First edition in book form of George Eliot’s first works of fiction. Two octavo volumes (6 7/8 x 4 1/2 inches; 175 x 115 mm). [6], 366, [2, blank]; [6], 381, [3, blank] pp. Complete with half-titles.
Contemporary half red morocco over marbled boards. Boards ruled in gilt. Spines stamped and lettered in gilt. All edges marbled. Marbled endpapers. Some mild rubbing along board edges, outer hinges and spine extremities. Mild foxing to preliminary leaves. Small tear to bottom corner of leaf Q8 in volume I, not affecting text. Overall very good.
A series of three tales, “The Sad Fortunes of the Rev. Amos Barton,” “Mr Gilfil’s Love-Story,” and “Janet’s Repentence,” which first appeared in Blackwood’s Magazine in 1857. “These at once attracted praise for their domestic realism, pathos, and humour, and speculation about the identity of ‘George Eliot’, who was widely supposed to be a clergyman or possibly a clergyman’s wife” (The Oxford Companion to English Literature).
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