Author: Thomas Hardy
Title: A Group of Noble Dames
Description: London; New York, Harper & Brothers, 1891. Cloth. A wonderful collection of short stories by Thomas Hardy, a frame narrative volume telling the lives of ten noble dames of centuries past. An interesting collection of ten short stories contained in a frame narrative. 'A Group of Noble Dames' follows the course of one evening, when a group of members of a club each tell one story about a noble dame of the seventeenth or eighteenth centuries.Including 'The First Countess of Wessex', 'Barbara of the House of Grebe', 'The Marchioness of Stonehenge', 'Lady Mottisfont', 'The Lady Icenway', 'Squire Petrick's Lady', 'Anna, Lady Baxby', 'The Lady Penelope', 'The Duchess of Hamptonshire', and 'The Honourable Laura&apos.Illustrated with a frontispiece by H. Macbeth-Raeburn, and a map of Wessex. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, smart, with only a few minor marks to the boards. Light bumping to the head and tail of the spine. Prior owner's ink inscription to the verso of the rear endpaper. Scattered spots to the paste downs and endpapers. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: H. Macbeth-Raeburn. Very Good Indeed .

Keywords: A Group of Noble Dames thomas hardy short stories first countess of wessex thomas hardy H. Macbeth-Raeburn


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