Published by The Folio Society, London, 1999. The book is in excellent condition with its original red cloth including a gilt design, as well as gilt titles to spine. The book sits in its green slipcase which has some minor surface marks, but no other damage. Introduced by Kathryn Huges and includes engravings by George Tute. 
 
Felix Holt, the Radical (1866) is a social novel about political disputes in a small English town at the time of the First Reform Act of 1832.
 
In January 1868, Eliot penned an article entitled "Address to Working Men, by Felix Holt". This came on the heels of the Second Reform Act of 1867 which expanded the right to vote beyond the landed classes and was written in the character of, and signed by, Felix Holt.
 
The story centres on an election contested by Harold Transome, a local landowner, in the "Radical cause", contrary to his family's Tory traditions. Contrasting with the opportunism of Transome is the sincere, but opinionated, Radical Felix Holt. A subplot concerns the stepdaughter of a dissenting minister who is the true heir to the Transome estate, but who is unaware of the fact. She becomes the object of the affections of both Harold Transome and Felix Holt.