ELIOT, George.

Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe.

"Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings": First Edition of George Eliot's Silas Marner

Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1861.

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First edition of Eliot's third novel, widely praised as her greatest. Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco by Blackwell-Bennett with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, top edge gilt, Blackwood and Carlyle advertisements at rear which only appear in some copies, with the original cloth covers bond in at the rear. In very good condition. A sharp example.

"The finest of [Eliot's] studies of humble rural life" (Stanford Companion, 211). "Overwhelming are the glorious qualities which make [Eliot] a supreme novelist in an age of great novelists: her penetrating sympathy, her deep knowledge of humanity, her descriptive power, her lambent humor, the reflection of her extraordinary mind" (Kunitz and Haycraft).