SILAS MARNER

First edition with these illustrations. Deluxe issue. Publisher's original vellum, elaborately decorated and with titles in gilt to the upper board and spine. Top edge gilt. Red ribbon page marker, present but loosely laid in. With a tissue guarded frontispiece, illustrated title page and a further 22 full page colour plates after watercolours by C. E. Brock. A near fine copy, the binding firm with a little bowing at the board ends, the vellum and gilt bright and fresh. The contents, with a neat ownership inscription (dated 1912) to the blank front free endpaper, and a touch of spotting to the closed text block edge, are otherwise clean throughout.

A beautifully illustrated edition of Eliot's classic of English literature, in the publisher's deluxe binding.