Research Catalog

Title

Silas Marner : the weaver of Raveloe / by George Eliot, author of "Adam Bede," etc.

Author

Eliot, George, 1819-1880.

Publication

Edinburgh and London : William Blackwood and Sons, MDCCCLXI [1861].

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Details

Additional Authors

• William Blackwood and Sons, publisher.
• William Blackwood and Sons, printer.

Description

[6], 364, 16, [3] pages; 20 cm

Note

• Epigraph: "A child, more than all other gifts / The earth can offer to declining man, / Brings hope with it, and forward-looking thoughts" -- [William] Wordsworth.
• Printer's imprint: "Printed by William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh."

Access (note)

• Restricted access;

Indexed In (note)

• Baker, W. and J. Ross. George Eliot: A Bibliographical History
• Haight, G., editor. The George Eliot letters
• Sadleir, M. XIX Century Fiction

Call Number

Pforz (Eliot, G. Silas Marner)

LCCN

25023748

OCLC

2195413

Author

Eliot, George, 1819-1880.

Title

Silas Marner : the weaver of Raveloe / by George Eliot, author of "Adam Bede," etc.

Publisher

Edinburgh and London : William Blackwood and Sons, MDCCCLXI [1861].

Edition

[First edition]

Restricted Access

Restricted access; Pforzheimer Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.

Indexed In:

Baker, W. and J. Ross. George Eliot: A Bibliographical History, A6

Haight, G., editor. The George Eliot letters, volume III, page 390

Sadleir, M. XIX Century Fiction, 819

Local Note

Berg Coll Eliot, G. 1861 c. 1: Inserted at front is a 16-page autograph letter signed from George Eliot to John Sibree dated February 11, 1848 (published in Haight, volume I, page 245). -- Publisher's advertisements correspond to Baker and Ross's arrangement C. -- Publisher's cinnamon diagonal ripple-grain cloth, boards blocked in blind with ornamental border, spines decorated and lettered in gilt, cream endpapers (Baker and Ross's binding A); with the binder's ticket of Burn, 37 & 38 Kirby St. -- From the library of William T. H. Howe.

Berg Coll Eliot, G. 1861 c. 2: Publisher's advertisements correspond mostly to Baker and Ross's arrangement A, but the 8 pages at rear correspond to arrangement B2. -- Publisher's cinnamon diagonal wave cloth, boards blocked in bind with ornamental border, spines decorated and lettered in gilt, cream endpapers, gatherings unopened (Baker and Ross's binding B). -- From the library of Owen D. Young.

Berg Coll Eliot, G. 1861 c. 3: Extra-illustrated with plates from the 1899 edition illustrated by Reginald Birch and the 1905 edition illustrated by Charles Edmund Brock (some inlaid), half-title from a later edition, and a portrait of George Eliot etched by E. A. Fowle after Frederic William Burton. -- Only [10] pages of the publisher's advertisements are present; the "recent publications" list begins on page [3] with Osborn's The Present and Future of British Relations in China. -- Early 20th-century blue half morocco over orange cloth boards, spine tooled in gilt, marbled endpapers. -- From the library of Henry W. and Albert A. Berg.

Pforzheimer copy 1: Publisher's advertisements correspond to Baker and Ross's arrangement B1. -- With the embossed bookseller's stamp of W. H. Smith & Son, 186 Strand, London to front free endpaper. -- Publisher's cinnamon diagonal ripple-grain cloth, boards blocked in blind with ornamental border, spines decorated and lettered in gilt, cream endpapers (Baker and Ross's binding A, but with the publisher's imprint at foot of spine in a smaller type than Berg copy 1 and Pforzheimer copy 2); with the binder's ticket of Burn, 37 & 38 Kirby St. -- Acquired by Carl H. Pforzheimer from the library of Charles Baker, July 1918, through George D. Smith.

Pforzheimer copy 2: 2nd printing. -- Later setting of gathering D, with page 49, line 19 emended to read "till I have got" instead of "till I've got" (cf. Baker and Ross page 146). -- Also with the following points not mentioned by Baker and Ross: page 344, line 22 is uncorrected and reads "What could I care for them" instead of "What could I care for then" (cf. March 19, 1861 letter from George Eliot to John Blackwood); the statement "The Right of Translation is reserved" appears on the title-page. -- Lacking publisher's advertisements. -- Publisher's cinnamon diagonal ripple-grain cloth, boards blocked in blind with ornamental border, spines decorated and lettered in gilt, cream endpapers (Baker & Ross's binding A); with the binder's ticket of Burn, 37 & 38 Kirby St. -- Acquired by Carl H. Pforzheimer through Bernard Quaritch Ltd., March 1925.

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Added Author

William Blackwood and Sons, publisher.

William Blackwood and Sons, printer.

Baker, Charles, former owner.

Berg, Albert A., 1872-1950, former owner.

Berg, Henry W., 1858-1938, former owner.

Birch, Reginald B., 1856-1943, illustrator.

Brock, C. E. (Charles Edmund), 1870-1938, illustrator.

James Burn & Company, binder.

Burton, Frederic William, 1816-1900, artist.

Fowle, Edward A., etcher.

Howe, W. T. H. (William Thomas Hildrup), 1874-1939, former owner.

Bernard Quaritch (Firm), bookseller.

Pforzheimer, Carl H. (Carl Howard), 1879-1957, former owner.

Smith, George D. (George Dallas), 1870-1920, bookseller.

W.H. Smith & Son, bookseller.

Young, Owen D., 1874-1962, former owner.

Research Call Number

Pforz (Eliot, G. Silas Marner)

Berg Coll Eliot, G. 1861 c. 1