Daniel Deronda.

ELIOT, George.

$1,950.00

Item Number: 147409

Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1876.

First edition of Eliot’s final and most controversial work, which essentially predicts the foundation of Israel. Octavo, four volumes bound in contemporary half morocco over marbled boards by Proudfoot Binder with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in five compartments within raised bands, marbled endpapers, stamp signed by Proudfoot on the verso of the front free endpaper. In very good condition.

The controversial final statement of one of the most renowned of Victorian novelists, Daniel Deronda played a positively influential role in on the emergence of Jewish Zionism upon publication in 1876. The book was immediately translated into German and Dutch and has been cited by Henrietta Szold, Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, and Emma Lazarus as having been influential in their decision to become Zionists.