Book Description

Handsomely bound in contemp. half green calf by Hatchards of Piccadilly, matching green cloth boards, spines directly lettered & with compartments in gilt; spines uniformly faded to brown. With the original cloth bindings bound at the end of each volume. Armorial bookplate of Oliver Brett on leading pastedowns; stamp of the Barrow-In-Furness Working Men’s Club on the first page of text in each vol.
Dealer Notes
See Purdy p36; Wolff 2980. The novel was commissioned by Harper’s for the European edition of their New Monthly Magazine and was first published in book form in New York, November 1881, pre-dating the English edition by a week. The copy of Oliver Sylvain Baliol Brett, 3rd Viscount Esher, 1881–1963.
Author HARDY, Thomas.
Date 1881
Binding contemp. half green calf
Publisher Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington.
Condition v.g.

Price: £950.00

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