hardcover
1908 · Boston
by ELIOT, George
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1908. Limited. hardcover. fine. Over 150 illustrations including hand-colored frontispieces in double-suite. The illustrations reproduce original drawings by Charles Brock, Frederick Pegram, Ambrose Dudley and others, as well as photogravures by D.E. Walmsley. 25 volumes. Octavo, contemporary 3/4 brown rushed morocco, elaborately gilt spines with raised bands; marbled boards and endpapers, top edges gilt, uncut and largely unopened. A fine set. Splendid large-paper edition of Eliot's writings, number 246 of only 750 sets .
(Inventory #: 268364)