HARDY, Thomas.
The Works of Thomas Hardy. [Including Far from the Madding Crowd; The Mayor of Casterbridge; The Trumpet-Major; Tess of the D'Urbervilles; A Pair of Blue Eyes; Two on a Tower; The Return of the Native; Desperate Remedies; Wessex Tales.]
“Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized”: the Wessex Edition of Thomas Hardy
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1899.
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The Wessex edition of Thomas Hardy's works. Octavo, fifteen volumes bound in the original publisher's cloth with gilt titles to the spines, floral details stamped in blind to the spines and front panels, top edge gilt, tissue-guarded frontispiece to each volume, illustrated with a map of The Wessex at the rear of each volume. In good to near fine condition with some bumping to the crown and foot of the spine, rubbing to the extremities and panels, light toning to the margins, some sunning to the spines of vols. 3, 4, and 10, ownership signature to the front pastedown of each volume, ownership inscription to the front pastedown of volume 1.
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