The Works of George Meredith.

MEREDITH, George.

$975.00

Item Number: 124159

Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co, 1897.

Finely bound set of the works of George Meredith. Octavo, 18 volumes bound by Maclehose in three quarters crushed morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, marbled endpapers, gilt topstain, engraved frontispiece to each volume. In very good condition.

A contemporary of Thomas Hardy, Robert Louis Stevenson, and J. M. Barrie, English novelist and poet George Meredith was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature seven times and is best known for his novels Evan Harrington (1861), The Adventures of Harry Richmond (1871), Beauchamp's Career (1875), and Diana of the Crossways (1885).