London. Smith Elder & Co. 1863. 3 vols. pp. iv, 336; iv, 333, (i), (ii) of adverts; iv, 292. 8vo. Half red morocco, marbled boards, gilt decoration. Endpapers lightly foxed. 1st edition in book form. Spine titles Novels of George Eliot indicating that it may have been bound as part of a set, Sadleir 817. Shattock. Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. 'Romola (1863) marked a change of subject and a change of publisher, a historical novel set in fifteenth century Florence, serialized first in the Cornhill Magazine.' It is unique among Eliot's works for being her only novel set outside of provincial England.

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