The Works of George Eliot: The Mill on the Floss (two volumes)

Edinburgh : William Blackwood, c 1880.

Fine bound edition of this literary classic in a signed Mudie binding. Two volumes, half-calf over marbled boards, slightly scuffed, with contrasting labels to spines in navy blue and brown. Spines with cross hatched decoration and raised bands, with contrasting label in blue and red, small scuff to the bottom label of second vol. Edges of text marbled in sympathy with endpapers. A magnificent example of the binders art. 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.