ELIOT, GEORGE - MIDDLEMARCH - FOLIO SOCIETY (SOLD)

A 1999 Folio Society edition, with introduction by Penelope Fitzgerald and engravings by Simon Brett. George Eliot's influential novel Middlemarch is a “study of provincial life.” At its centre are the beautiful and inquisitive Dorothea Brooke and the ambitious young doctor Tertius Lydgate, who both have to abandon their idealist views when faced with the reality of daily life.

Binding suggestion: For this book the customer sent us his design ideas, with his chosen colour combination. We selected the leather, ribbon, top and tail bands and sent it to him for approval. The book was then beautifully bound in leather by Phil our most experienced bookbinder. This commission was a little different as we used leather labels on the book spine with the author and title blocked onto it. This looked very smart as it allows the front to be plain, it adds to the timeless and classic look of this book.