Adam Bede

Author(s): Eliot, George

Illustrator(s): Bacon, H I

Binding:	Hardcover
Volume Condition:	Good
Dust Jacket:	No
Language:	English
Publisher Name:	S W Partridge and Co
Publication Place:	London
Book ID:	000216
Catalogue(s):	Beautiful Books ◇ Classic Literature ◇ Decorative and Pictorial Bindings

Not dated but c 1910. 478p plus 32pp of contemporary publisher's adverts at rear. Red cloth boards with Art Noveau decorative design to front board and spine. 6 plate monochrome illustrations, including frontispiece, by H I Bacon. Boards slightly rubbed and faded, with small nick in cloth a third of the way down the spine. Ffep absent & mild page tanning, else neat and and clean internally. Square and tightly bound. Lovely example of Art Noveau binding on this literary classic. 0

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art noveau pictorial cloth decorative cloth