The Complete Works of George Eliot with Photogravure Illustrations from New Drawings by Gertrude Demain Hammond, R. I. And Frederick L. Stoddard

The Complete Works of George Eliot with Photogravure Illustrations from New Drawings by Gertrude Demain Hammond, R. I. And Frederick L. Stoddard, Edition De Luxe, Limited Edition #638/1000 8vo.(5.25" x 7.8785") 10 volumes complete. Limited Edition de Luxe #638/1000, c1905. New York: National Library Company. Three quarter dark blue Morocco with generous corners, gilt rule to leather edges, over lighter blue cloth. Top edge gilt, light blue endpapers. Spine with three gilt decorated raised bands, author in gilt to second compartment, gilt sub-title to third, heavy gilt floral decoration centered to all others. Edgewear, corners bumped and rubbed, covers lightly soiled, tiny chip lacking to head of one volume (see pic). Illustrated with Photogravures from new Drawings by Gertrude Demain, and R.I. and Frederick L. Stoddard. Most volumes with hand colored engraved frontispieces. Title pages in black and red, contents Near Fine. Mary Ann Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880; alternatively Mary Anne or Marian), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She wrote seven novels: Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Romola (1862–1863), Felix Holt, the Radical (1866), Middlemarch (1871–1872) and Daniel Deronda (1876). Like Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy, she emerged from provincial England; most of her works are set there. Her works are known for their realism, psychological insight, sense of place, and detailed depiction of the countryside. Middlemarch was described by the novelist Virginia Woolf as "one of the few English novels written for grown-up people" and by Martin Amis and Julian Barnes as the greatest novel in the English language.