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Lot 68
  • 68

Hardy, Thomas

Estimate
700 - 900 GBP
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Description

  • Hardy, Thomas
  • The Woodlanders. London: Macmillan and Co., 1887
  • ink on paper
8vo (191 x 122mm.), 3 volumes, FIRST EDITION, half-titles, single leaf of advertisements at end of volume 1, publisher's dark green pebbled cloth blocked in black on front and blind on back (secondary binding), spines lettered in gilt, dark chocolate end-papers, in modern dark green chemises and morocco-backed slipcase [with reference on spine to an autograph letter later removed], hinges of vol.1 split, spines bumped at head and foot

Provenance

John Stuart Groves, green morocco book-label; David and Lulu Borowitz, bookplate (sale at Sotheby Parke Bernet, November 15, 1977, lot 120 [autograph letter originally tipped-in subsequently removed])

Literature

Purdy, pp. 54-55; see Sadleir 1120