Author: JOHNSON Lionel
Title: The Art of Thomas Hardy. To which is added a Chapter on the Poetry by J.E. Barton and a Bibliography by John Lane. Together with a new Portrait by Vernon Hill and the etched Portrait by William Strang. [New Edition.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE BEST EDITION
Description: John Lane The Bodley Head,, 1923. 8vo., New Edition, on laid paper, with frontispiece and title in red and black, and etched portrait plate, tiny contemporary signature on front free endpaper; green cloth, upper board framed in blind, gilt back, dark top, uncut, a very good, bright, clean copy. An elegant copy of an important study first published in 1894. This revised edition includes a newly extended bibliography by John Lane. Strang's portrait of Hardy, commissioned by Lane for the frontispiece of the original edition and present here as plate, is widely considered to be the artist's finest etching.

Keywords: modern first editions, modern firsts, hardy, thomas hardy, dorset, wessex, wessex novels, lionel johnson, john lane, strang, william strang, vernon hill


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