The Clarendon edition of Adam Bede (1859) offers a critical edition of the work that established George Eliot's reputation. Its extensive textual apparatus list... » 

The Clarendon edition of Adam Bede (1859) offers a critical edition of the work that established George Eliot's reputation. Its extensive textual apparatus lists manuscript and first edition variants from the copy-text, which is the corrected eighth edition of 1861 - her last revision of the book. «