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Eliot, George.
Adam Bede.
Publisher: Collins’ Clear-Type Press, London and Glasgow;
Date of Publication: 1910
Stock Code: 14785
Octavo, pp., 488, plus 8 full-page colour plates. Collated and complete. Publisher’s scarlet cloth over bevelled boards; titled in gilt to spine and upper board within elaborate black and gold-coloured design; fleur-de-lis patterned end-papers; all edges gilt. Spine slightly sunned, very minor shelf-wear to extremities. Scattered foxing to edges and prelims. A very good copy. An attractive copy of Eliot’s first novel in Edwardian ‘shelf candy’ binding. £85.00