The Mill on the Floss

Handsomely-bound edition, signed by Mudie c1880, in two volumes, half calf over marbled boards, slightly scuffed, with contrasting labels to spines in navy blue and brown. Spines with cross hatched decoration, raised bands. Edges of text block marbled. Ex.libris Sir William Boord, of Wakehurst Place, Sussex, with his large, armorial bookplate to each vol. Boord (1838-1912) was a Tory MP for Greenwich and a fellow of the Society of Antiquities.