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: THIS COPY IN FULL MOROCCO
Description: Macmillan,, 1926. 8vo., First Edition thus, with engraved frontispiece, 40 engravings (a number full-page) and large folding map; elegantly bound in full dark green crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt edges, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, custom-made marbled slip-case, an elegant copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. 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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