SILAS MARNER: The Weaver of Raveloe
SILAS MARNER: The Weaver of Raveloe | Rare and modern books | Eliot
SILAS MARNER: The Weaver of Raveloe
SILAS MARNER: The Weaver of Raveloe | Rare and modern books | Eliot
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Details
- Year of publication
- 1861
- Place of printing
- Edinburgh and London
- Author
- Eliot
- Publishers
- William Blackwood and Sons
- Edition
- A VERY FINE AND HANDSOME FIRST EDITION IN A BEAUTIFUL BINDING
- First edition
- True
Description
First Edition, with Fine Provenance having come from the collection of Robert Hoe with his gilt lettered morocco ex libris. 8vo, beautifully bound by Riviere and Son in full tan calf, the covers with multi-ruled gilt fillet lines at the borders with circular tools as corner-pieces, the spines richly gilt decorated in panels between gilt ruled and stippled raised bands, two compartments with contrasting red and green morocco labels finely gilt ruled and lettered and with gilt tooled corner-pieces, beautifully gilt tooled turn-ins and ruled board edges, marbled endpapers, t.e.g. [vi], 364 pp. A superb copy fine and handsome, the text very clean and fresh with only occasional light mellowing and basically free from any spotting, the fine binding in excellent condition.
