Author: George Eliot [Mary Ann Evans]

Publication Place: Albany, New York

Date: 1888

Publisher: James B. Lyon and Co.

Complete six-volume illustrated Boston Edition of the works of George Eliot, published by James B. Lyon and Co. in 1888. Handsomely bound in three-quarter leather over marbled boards, with raised bands, elaborate gilt decoration and contrasting red and black leather spine labels. Illustrated throughout.

The six volumes comprise Adam Bede and Felix Holt; The Mill on the Floss, Clerical Life, and Life; Romola and Silas Marner; Middlemarch; Daniel Deronda; and Essays, Theophrastus Such, The Lifted Veil, Brother Jacob, and other writings. This arrangement corresponds to the documented six-volume 1888 James B. Lyon Boston Edition.  

An especially attractive late-Victorian collected edition of one of the major English novelists of the nineteenth century. The decorative leather spines, gilt tooling and marbled boards give the set excellent shelf presence.