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Antique Book Set: The Works of George Eliot Cabinet Edition 1870s Leather Bound
Antique Book Set: The Works of George Eliot Cabinet Edition 1870s Leather Bound
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Set of 7, antique (1870s), leather-bound Books: The Works of George Eliot Cabinet Edition. This set is a part of a 24 volume set published and printed by William Blackwood & Sons (London), edited by J.W. Cross and bound by A.C. McClure & Co. This limited set includes the following volumes: 1. Mariner, The Lifted Veil, Jacob, 2. Legend of Jubal & other poems, 3. Adam Bede I, 4. Adam Bede II, 5. Daniel Deronda, Vol. I, 6. The Spanish Gypsy, 7. Felix Holt, the Radical. (see below for info on George Eliot)All these books are bound in gold embossed medium brown leather, have leather and blue, red, tan & cream marbled hard board covers, marbled paper end papers and gilt top page edges. Each book measures 7" high by 4 1/2" wide by 1 1/4" deep. Original book plates showing the New York home of Eda Mattheissen and bears her name. Contents of books are clean with no broken spines, tight & square. Wear and nicks on edges of covers and spines. Felix Holt II has some tears in paper and leather finish on cover. See photos for more details on condition. This set was owned by Eda Matheissen, (born 1865) daughter of Fredrick Matheissen, of Matheissen & Hegeler Zinc Co., zinc producer in LaSalle IL who also owned and ran other businesses such as Westclox. The family was neighbors with and later purchasers of the Tiffany Estate in Livingston, NY. Eda was married to her cousin, Conrad Mattheissen, the Chicago and Jersey City refiner of sugar and corn syrup. She had 4 children, and was known for her charitable work donating a gym and pipe organ to LaSalle IL high school in 1926. She moved to Santa Barbara and in 1927, divorced Conrad and moved to Pasadena to be near her son Conrad. She remained in Pasadena until her death in 1957. These books came from her estate. A nice set for a library or simply for styling and decor.
Notes on George Eliot:
George Eliot was the pen name of Mar Ann Evans (1819-1880), an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She took on her male pen name to have her work taken seriously at the time. She wrote 7 novels and countless articles and reviews for newspapers and journals.She was known for her detailed and carefully written prose and politically charged opinions and views of English society at her time, that come through in not only her articles but later in her fiction as well.
