Author: HARDY Thomas
Title: A Group of Noble Dames. With an Etching by H. Macbeth-Raeburn and a Map of Wessex. [Vol. XV of 'The Wessex Novels']. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE WESSEX NOVELS EDITION
Description: Osgood McIlvaine,, [1896]. 8vo., First Edition thus, on laid paper, with etched frontispiece and full-page map of Wessex in the text, some very light and scattered spotting on endpapers only, small neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; original decorative green ribbed cloth gilt, 'TH' monogram blocked in gilt on upper cover, gilt back, gilt top, uncut, small crease and indentation in backstrip else a very good, bright, clean copy. Osgood's 'Wessex Novels' is the the first uniform and complete edition of Hardy's works. Each of the sixteen volumes has an etched frontispiece by Macbeth-Raeburn (depicting a scene from the novel drawn on the spot; in this case 'Kings-Hintock Court in The First Countess of Wessex') and a map of Wessex drawn by Hardy himself. In terms of book production, these are undoubtedly the finest trade editions of Hardy's works; in the case of 'The Group of Noble Dames' plates of the original edition were used. See Purdy, pp.279-282. ALL VOLUMES OF THIS SERIES ARE SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.

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