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Hardy Thomas

Tess of the D'Urbervilles. A Pure Woman. Faithfully presented by Thomas Hardy. With Wood Engravings by Vivien Gribble. 1500 COPIES WERE PRINTED

Macmillan, 1926

281,75 €

Island Books

(Devon, Royaume-Uni)

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Détails

Année
1926
Auteur
Hardy Thomas
Éditeurs
Macmillan
Thème
modern first editions, modern firsts, hardy, thomas hardy, gribble, vivien gribble, tess, wood engravings
Langues
Anglais

Description

8vo., First Edition thus, with engraved frontispiece, 40 engravings (a number full-page) and large folding map, neat contemporary signatures on front paste-down; original navy buckram, bevelled boards, gilt back, gilt top, uncut, boards very lightly age-marked, backstrip mildly faded (but all gilt wholly legible), a bright, clean, crisp copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 1500 COPIES. With the trade ticket of Gilbert of Southampton on front paste-down. 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.