The Mill On The Floss.
"If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge": First edition of George Eliot's The Mill On The Floss; finely bound by southeran
The Mill On The Floss.
ELIOT, George.
$1,250.00
Item Number: 147792
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1860.
First edition of Eliot’s most deeply autobiographical work. Octavo, three volumes bound in full polished calf by H. Sotheran & Co. with elaborate gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, morocco spine labels letter in gilt, double gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt-ruled turn-ins and inner dentelles, navy blue endpapers, all edges gilt. In very good condition with rubbing to the spine extremities.
A reimagining of Eliot's strained relationship with her much-loved brother, The Mill on the Floss represents Eliot's most autobiographical work. Setting the story down on paper proved emotionally draining for the author, and on 5 March 1860, Eliot's partner, G.H. Lewes wrote to publisher John Blackwood that "Mrs. Lewes is getting her eyes redder and swollener every morning as she lives through her tragic story. But there is such a strain of poetry to relieve the tragedy that the more she cries, and the readers cry, the better say I."
