LITERATURE 20 Splendid large-paper edition of Eliot’s writings, one of only 750 sets produced, with over 150 illustrations including hand-colored frontispieces in double-suite, one of each finely hand-colored, with a signed autograph letter by Eliot bound into Volume I. Eliot, who pioneered the method of psychological analysis characteristic of modern fiction, has been praised for the qualities that make her “a supreme novelist in an age of great novelists” (Kunitz and Haycraft, 212). The autograph letter, signed by Eliot with her actual name, Marian Evans, is a warm letter of sympathy to an ill friend, dated 1855, concluding, “Perhaps after all it may do you a little good to know that you have the hearty interest and friendship of Marian Evans.” Fine condition. “A Supreme Novelist In The Age Of Great Novelists”: Illustrated Large-Paper Edition Of George Eliot’s Works, With A Signed Autograph Letter 19ELIOT, George. The Writings. Boston and New York, 1908. Twenty-five volumes. Octavo, contemporary full brown crushed morocco gilt. $11,000 “The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.”
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