The Works of. in Prose and Verse with Prefaces and Notes. Tess of the D'Urbervilles. Far from the Madding Crowd. Jude the Obscure. The Return of the Native. The Mayor of Casterbridge. The Woodlanders. Under the Greenwood Tree. Life's Little Ironies. A Pair of Blue Eyes. The Trumpet-Major.Two on a Tower. The Well-Beloved. A Group of Noble Dames. Desperate Remedies. The Hand of Ethelberta. A Laodicean. Wessex Poems, and Poems of the Past and Present. The Dynasts: Parts First and Second. The Dynasts: Part Third [with] Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses
Published by London: Macmillan and Co., Limited 1912-13, 1912
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Seller: Bow Windows Bookshop (ABA, ILAB), Lewes, United KingdomBow Windows Bookshop (ABA, ILAB)
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"Wessex Edition". Twenty volumes. 8vo. Publisher's maroon cloth, gilt spines, early ticket of a Liverpool bookseller (Martin A. McGoff) to the front pastedowns along with a bookplate of a Godfrey W. Mathews, Thomas Hardy's original handwritten signature on a slip of paper taped to the front free endpaper of volume I. 20 photogravure frontispieces plus a double page map of Wessex repeated to the rear of each volume. Sunning to the spines, occasional marking to the cloth, some foxing at intervals. Purdy, pp. 282-86: "The Wessex Edition is in every sense the definitive edition of Hardy's work and the last authority in questions of text". Hardy himself corrected, edited and revised the texts throughout, the final time he did so. A further four volumes of verse were published irregularly between 1919 and 1931, the final one posthumously.
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- Title
- The Works of. in Prose and Verse with Prefaces and Notes. Tess of the D'Urbervilles. Far from the Madding Crowd. Jude the Obscure. The Return of the Native. The Mayor of Casterbridge. The Woodlanders. Under the Greenwood Tree. Life's Little Ironies. A Pair of Blue Eyes. The Trumpet-Major.Two on a Tower. The Well-Beloved. A Group of Noble Dames. Desperate Remedies. The Hand of Ethelberta. A Laodicean. Wessex Poems, and Poems of the Past and Present. The Dynasts: Parts First and Second. The Dynasts: Part Third [with] Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses
- Author
- HARDY, Thomas
- Publisher
- London: Macmillan and Co., Limited 1912-13
- Publication year
- 1912
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Bow Windows Bookshop (ABA, ILAB)
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Bow Windows Bookshop has a large general stock of old and fine books and maps. Owned in partnership by Ric Latham and Jonathan Menezes, we buy and sell all manner of titles from early leatherbound volumes to modern first editions. We exhibit at bookfairs in the UK and North America and issue regular printed catalogues. Located in the beautiful county town of Lewes in the south-east of England, we are open six days a week. All our books are described as accurately as possible and we abide by the Code of Good Practice of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association…
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