Author: HARDY Thomas
Title: Tess of the D'Urbervilles. A Pure Woman. Faithfully presented by Thomas Hardy. With Wood Engravings by Vivien Gribble. 1500 COPIES WERE PRINTED
Description: Macmillan,, 1926. 8vo., First Edition thus, with engraved frontispiece, 40 engravings (a number full-page) and large folding map; original navy buckram, bevelled boards, gilt back, gilt top, uncut, backstrip lightly sunned (but all gilt wholly legible), a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 1500 COPIES. Printed from the plates of Macmillan's definitive Wessex Edition and so including both the expanded Preface of 1912 and the episode of the dance at the hay-trusser's (pp.76-79) present there for the first time. See Purdy p.77.

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