ELIOT (GEORGE) Middlemarch. A Study in Provincial Life, 4 vol., first edition in book form, half-titles, with errata slip in volume 2, titles trimmed (the wording "the right of translation is reserved" shaved in volumes 1 and 4 and cropped in other volumes), some spotting, contemporary red half calf over marbled boards, spines tooled in gilt with green morocco lettering labels, edges marbled, rubbed [Sadleir 815; Wolff 2059a], 8vo, William Blackwood and Sons, 1871-1872