Daniel Deronda.
“No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from": Rare first edition of George Eliot's Daniel Deronda
Daniel Deronda.
ELIOT, George.
$4,800.00
Item Number: 137114
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1876.
First edition in the publisher’s cloth of Eliot’s final and most controversial work, which essentially predicts the foundation of Israel. Octavo, eight volumes in the rare original publisher’s cloth, with the half-titles and errata slip to vol. 3. In good condition, stamps. Exceedingly rare in the publisher’s cloth issue with only one other example traced in auction records.
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.
