Scenes of Clerical Life / George Eliot
2017.11.12
Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings
ClergyFiction1900sSocial life and customs
7-1/2 in
George Eliot
Hugh Thomson
First
The Cranford Series
London
England
1906
R. & R. Clark
Edinburgh
ScotlandUnited Kingdom
Publisher's Binding- Cranford Series
Hugh Thomson
Bound in dark green cloth with unsigned cover design attributed to Hugh Thomson. Highly embellished gilt stamping of shepherd and pasturing sheep within floral border, motif repeated to spine. All edges gilt. Plain endpapers with Christmas gift inscription.
Date to title page but not copyright page. Owner's bookplate to ffep. Inscription on end papers: To Clara With best Christmas wishes [Initial illegible] 1906.
England
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