NMLP P-009876 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

Middlemarch

George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) · William Blackwood and Sons · 1871-1872

The UK Blackwood issue is the true first. The eight original parts in printed wrappers are the earliest state, issued in parallel with the four-volume cloth edition; no American printing precedes it in book form.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-009876 for "Middlemarch" by George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-009876, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).