Front

Title page with the Riverside Press device

Back

“My dear young lady — Miss Brooke — Dorothea!”

Frontispiece Collection

Middlemarch

Houghton Mifflin, Riverside Press, Cambridge

Casaubon proposing, or as near as the scene gets to it — “My dear young lady — Miss Brooke — Dorothea!” — opposite the Riverside Press title page with its Tout bien ou rien device.

Adapted from The Writings of George Eliot, Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life, Volume I, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston and New York, The Riverside Press, Cambridge. Reproduced from public-domain source material; the exact year, the illustrator, and the scan repository are still to be recorded.