Scenes of Clerical Life by George Eliot. Talwin Morris Peacock Design.

This is a lovely copy of Scenes of Clerical Life by George Eliot. Published c. 1900 by The Gresham Publishing Company. Bound in the publisher's blue cloth with an Art Nouveau peacock feather design by Talwin Morris. Gilt Lettering to front cover and spine. Hardcover. Octavo (205 x 140 mm.) Grey Endpapers. Illustrated by Chris Hammond. Title page in red and black. Introduction by William Keith Leask. The boards are in very good condition with some light surface soiling and some bumping and rubbing to the edges, corners and to the head and tail of the spine. Slight forward lean to the book. Contents good with only light age toning to the pages and without previous ownership markings.