George Eliot Association Copies in Aotearoa New Zealand

Abstract

This article describes and discusses two George Eliot association copies now in New Zealand. The history of the books and their ownership is given. The first is Eliot’s copy of John “Elocution” Walker’s A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary and Expositor of the English Language (1834). Today this is at Dunedin Public Libraries as part of the Alfred and Isabel Reed Collection. The second in private hands is a Bible printed in Cambridge at the Pitt Press by John W. Parker in 1837, initially published in 1781. Marginalia and their significance found within the volumes is presented.