first edition
1860 · New York
by Collins, Wilkie
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1860. First Edition. Good. First American edition, second state with first page of rear ads headed "By Miss Mulock," listing eleven titles, and verso advertising The Mill on the Floss. [Gasson p. 160.] 260, [4, ads] pp. Bicolumnar text. Bound in publisher's blindstamped brown cloth with gilt lettering and silver gilt figure of a woman (heavily rubbed and barely visible) to spine. Good with lean to spine, mottling to cloth, and rubbed corners. Split to lower end of front joint, horizontal tear near head of spine, bands exposed at head and tail. Waterstaining to endpapers, repairs to hinges, previous owner name (truncated)