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Donnelly Antiques Ltd has dated this piece to the 1910s.
His best-known works are The Ordeal of Richard Feverel (1859) and The Egoist (1879).
These 17 books contain all but one of Meredith's 19 novels, lacking his last novel, Celtic and Saxon which was posthumously published in 1910. 1 volume contains 4 short stories and there are 2 volumes of Poems. Published between 1910 & 1914 by Constable & Company they are uniformly bound in brown polished half leather bindings with gilt decorated spines and gilt top edges.
Externally there is shelf wear, marks, bumping to corners, minor loss to gilding and rubbing consistent with age. There is some discolouration around the hinges where it appears a leather dressing or polish may have been applied that was a little darker than the original leather colour. Internally tightly bound and clean although pages a little aged tone. Dated inscription to front free end papers. The volumes are 19cms high, 13.4cms deep and the total shelf coverage is some 56.5cms.
Donnelly Antiques Ltd has dated this piece to the 1910s.
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17 Uniformly Bound Books of George Meredith's Works Dated 1910/1914
