George Eliot set query.

I have a FS volume of Mill on the Floss that is a 2008 re-issue, with a new binding, of the 1999 printing. The binding for the 2008 volume is quarter buckram with crushed art silk sides. I cannot find on the excellent pinned FS list of books, or from the thread on FS sets, if the remaining Eliot set was also republished in 2008 with this different binding.

Does anyone know if this is so?

>1 ASheppard: I have just ordered that 2008 reissue of The Mill of the Floss and as far as I am aware from checking the only other one in that binding is Middlemarch.

If you check the 2009 prospectus you will see both books but nothing after that year.

>1 ASheppard: >2 assemblyman:
Just to confirm - these were the only two that were published with the crushed silk sides. The full set only ever came with the portrait-in-cartouche design, sadly (I positively disliked it); I'd have had the full set in that crushed silk at the drop of a hat.

>3 Willoyd: That’s what I assumed. Though I still intend to get the Middlemarch in that binding as they look to be lovely editions. It was a similar case with the Jane Austen series published around that time where only three were published, which I have as they are lovely editions but sadly we’re never completed.

>2 assemblyman: >3 Willoyd:

Thank you so much for the pointer to the prospectus - I've found them. Goodness it's a trip down memory lane!

Well, such a shame that the remainder of the set wasn't printed with this later binding. I have a '94 reprint of the '72 Middlemarch and the 2008 reissue of Mill on the Floss and was looking to source the remaining Eliot volumes. I shall have be content with an 'all sorts' on the bindings ...though I do prefer the 2008 binding to the '99.

>3 Willoyd: Me too. George Eliot is so not buckram. If FS had had the gumption to issue the whole series in differently coloured crushed silk boards, I'd have had them in a squirrel's heartbeat.