Author: HARDY Thomas
Title: The Dynasts. An Epic-Drama of the War with Napoleon. And The Famous Tragedy of the Queen of Cornwall. [Thin Paper Edition. First Edition thus]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Description: Macmillan,, 1930. 8vo., First Edition thus, endpapers very lightly browned; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly browned at extremities and with minor loss (not affecting lettering) at head and tail of backstrip. The first Thin Paper edition combining 'The Dynasts' and 'The Famous Tragedy of the Queen of Cornwall' in a single volume. Issued as Volume II of 'The Poetical Works', it is nevertheless complete in itself ('Volume I' collects the author's several volumes of poetry). 'The Dynasts' was originally published in three parts (1903, 1906, 1908) and first collected in a single ('Complete') volume in 1910. 'Queen of Cornwall' (1923) was re-issued in a second and considerably revised edition in the following year. SCARCE IN THE DUSTWRAPPER. See Purdy, pp.134 and 230.

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