ELIOT (GEORGE) Scenes of Clerical Life, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK, with half-titles, a few gatherings of volume 1 shaken, oval bookplate with legend "Longa Dies Noctem", publisher's blind-stamped maroon cloth by Edmonds & Remnants (with binder's ticket on rear endpapers), lettered in gilt on spine, worn, spine ends frayed, small loss (c.10mm.) to lower joint of volume 1 [Sadleir 818; Wolff 2062], 8vo, William Blackwood, 1858