ELIOT, George (1819-80). Middlemarch. A Study of Provincial Life. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 187-[72]. 8 original parts, 8vo. Title page in volume one, half titles in seven parts, with additional half titles and title pages for volume 2, 3 and 4 bound in at the end of volume 8, bound out of sequence (minor occasional spotting). Original green pictorial wrappers (wrappers covered in contemporary faded red cloth, occasionally adhering to original wrappers with loss, part VI lacking original wrappers, backstrips chipped, covers chipped, advertisements and endpapers adhering). Provenance: Harewood Book Club (labels on front pastedowns and at foot of backstrips). FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL PARTS. RARE. Parrish 29-31; Sadleir 815. Part I contains a publisher's slip advertising the second part and advertisements paginated 17-24 (only); part II contains advertisements paginated [1]-8 at the front and 9-15 at the end; part III contains advertisements paginated 3-4 at the front and 5-7 at the end; part IV contains a publisher's slip advertising part V pasted down at the end, without advertisements; part V contains a publisher's slip advertising the sixth part and advertisement paginated 4 pasted down at the front and advertisement paginated 5 pasted down at the end; part VI contains a publisher's slip advertising the seventh and eighth parts pasted down at the end and no advertisements; part VII contains publisher's slip advertising part eight pasted down at the end onto advertisement and part VIII contains one advertisement paginated 5 pasted down at the end. (8)