Romola / by George Eliot
George Eliot's novel Romola, published in London by Smith, Elder and Co. in 1888, is a historical novel set in Renaissance Florence and aimed at general readers of fiction. The pictures are decorative cover designs in gold and navy, with a gold fleur-de-lis, ornate scrollwork borders, and a flourished initial R, offering a designer useful examples of Victorian gilt-stamped book cover ornament.
