Scenes and Characters from the works of George Eliot: a series of illustrations by eminent artists. India proofs. With introductory essay and descriptive letterpress by L. G. Seguin
A gift album of sixty wood-engraved plates after paintings by various Victorian artists, illustrating episodes from George Eliot's novels, issued in London in 1888 with an essay and descriptive notes by L. G. Seguin for middle-class readers. The plates are dark tonal interiors and woodland scenes with figures in 1830s dress, useful for lamplit rooms, sickbeds, bonnets and courtship poses.
