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The Workman Collection

Thomas Hardy

Wessex Tales

Macmillan and Co.

1888

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The Workman Collection

First edition of Hardy's collection of short stories, Wessex Tales.

  • Sold as a set of 2.
  • Thomas Hardy (English).
  • Wessex Tales. Strange, Lively, and Commonplace.
  • London: Macmillan and Co., 1888.
  • Half-titles and 4 pages of publisher's advertisements to volume 2.
  • Octavo.
  • Limited to 634 bound copies.
  • Bound in original green cloth, ruled in light green with gilt-letters to spines.
  • Housed in a custom green morocco and cloth-covered board clamshell.

Literature

Purdy 58-60.

Sadleir 1119.

Wolff 2999.

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One or two stray spots.

Slightly cocked.

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First Edition

Language

English

Subject

Short Stories, English literature and history

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