Gaskell (Elizabeth C.) Wives and Daughters. An Every-Day Story, 2 vol., first edition, 18 wood-engraved plates by George Du Maurier, vol. 1 with some repair and restoration to lower corners, vol. 2 upper hinge cracked and with some light tape-staining to endpapers, original maroon cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, slight shelf-lean, spines faded, vol. 1 spine repaired at foot, bumping and fraying to spine ends and corners, rubbed, a very good example, [Sadleir 936; Wolff 2428], 8vo, Smith, Elder and Co., 1866.*** Rare in the original cloth. Wives and Daughters was unfinished at the time of Gaskell's sudden death in 1865, the final section was written by Frederick Greenwood.