Romola /
George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
Category
Books
Date
1890
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Sissinghurst Castle Garden, Kent
NT 3175621
Summary
Bibliographic description
[2], v, [3], 504, [2] p. ; 20 cm. Occasional pencil text marking and note (p. 41). Provenance: pictorial bookplate: “Vita. A good book is the best of friends the same today and forever. 1908 Knole” [i.e. Vita Sackville-West (1892-1962)]. Endpaper inscribed: Vita from Violet / March 9th 1909. [i.e. from Violet Trefusis (1894-1972)]. Binding: twentieth-century half calf, with red cloth on boards; gold decorative motif on spine; five false bands; gold lettered spine; marbled endpapers. Gold lettered on turn in: Bumpus Ltd. Oxford St. W.
Makers and roles
George Eliot (1819 - 1880)