Adam Bede, George Eliot. Published by The Folio Society, 1999. 8vo up to 9½” tall., 483pp., illustrated with engravings by Peter Reddick; introduced by Jane Gardam. Illustrated cloth boards with gilt spine titles; housed in a green slipcase. In fine, unread condition. Three additional matching volumes are also available: see picture for titles.
Mary Ann Evans, known by her pen name George Eliot (1819-1890, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She wrote seven novels: Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, Romola, Felix Holt, the Radical, Middlemarch and Daniel Deronda.
