Author: HARDY, Thomas
Title: Writings of Thomas Hardy in Prose and Verse, the
Description: New York: Harper & Brothers, 1915. The Autograph Edition One of 153 Sets Signed by Thomas Hardy HARDY, Thomas. The Writings of Thomas Hardy in Prose and Verse. With prefaces and notes. New York: Harper & Brothers, [1915]. Autograph Edition. Limited to 153 sets, signed by Thomas Hardy in volume one. Twenty octavo volumes (9 3/8 x 6 1/4 inches; 213 x 159 mm.). Frontispieces and plates, with descriptive tissue guards. Handsomely bound ca. 1915 in three-quarter medium blue morocco over marbled boards, ruled in gilt. Spines with five raised bands decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, others uncut. A very fine set. "Harper & Brothers issued the first 21 volumes of the Wessex Edition in America as the 'Autograph Edition' in 1915. This edition, limited to 153 sets with Hardy's signature on an inserted leaf, was in 20 volumes (The Well-Beloved and A Group of Noble Dames being combined in a single volume) and was partly printed from the English plates and partly reset in America (in the case of volumes already copyright there). The 'Map of the Wessex of the Novels and Poems' appears in Vol. 1 only, and the illustrations (4 to a volume) are derived from Lea's Thomas Hardy's Wessex. Hardy inscribed his own set to his wife, June 1915. The edition was reissued in 1920 as the 'Anniversary Edition' (re-calling Hardy's eightieth years), limited to 1,250 sets. A twenty-first volume was included, Satires of Circumstance and Moments of Vision, a makeshift printed from plates of the original editions." (Richard L. Purdy, Thomas Hardy. A Bibliographical Study, p. 286). .
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Title: Writings of Thomas Hardy in Prose and Verse, the
Description: New York: Harper & Brothers, 1915. The Autograph Edition One of 153 Sets Signed by Thomas Hardy HARDY, Thomas. The Writings of Thomas Hardy in Prose and Verse. With prefaces and notes. New York: Harper & Brothers, [1915]. Autograph Edition. Limited to 153 sets, signed by Thomas Hardy in volume one. Twenty octavo volumes (9 3/8 x 6 1/4 inches; 213 x 159 mm.). Frontispieces and plates, with descriptive tissue guards. Handsomely bound ca. 1915 in three-quarter medium blue morocco over marbled boards, ruled in gilt. Spines with five raised bands decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, others uncut. A very fine set. "Harper & Brothers issued the first 21 volumes of the Wessex Edition in America as the 'Autograph Edition' in 1915. This edition, limited to 153 sets with Hardy's signature on an inserted leaf, was in 20 volumes (The Well-Beloved and A Group of Noble Dames being combined in a single volume) and was partly printed from the English plates and partly reset in America (in the case of volumes already copyright there). The 'Map of the Wessex of the Novels and Poems' appears in Vol. 1 only, and the illustrations (4 to a volume) are derived from Lea's Thomas Hardy's Wessex. Hardy inscribed his own set to his wife, June 1915. The edition was reissued in 1920 as the 'Anniversary Edition' (re-calling Hardy's eightieth years), limited to 1,250 sets. A twenty-first volume was included, Satires of Circumstance and Moments of Vision, a makeshift printed from plates of the original editions." (Richard L. Purdy, Thomas Hardy. A Bibliographical Study, p. 286). .
Keywords: Sets (Bound) Signed Limited Edition Limited Editions
Price: US$ 7500.00 Seller: David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB)
- Book number: 06146
- Book number: 06146
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