![]() ![]() Frontispiece etching to the fore and map to the rear clean and bright. Offsetting to tissue-guard of the frontispiece etching. Some internal foxing to the front and rear endpapers and prelims, but the interior pages are mostly clean. ![]() Front and back interior hinges are weakened with some splitting to the endpapers, but not cracked. Fore-edge and bottom edge of page block untrimmed. Dark green colour is still vibrant, even on the spine. Edges and corners of boards are rubbed and creased, but there are no tears to the cloth. ***A good only copy in dark green close-ribbed cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine and ornate gilt floral circular monogram decoration to the front board. Macbeth-Raeburn: 'The "Christminster" of the story drawn on the spot to illustrate page 102': "For many days he haunted the cloisters and quadrangles of the colleges at odd minutes in passing them, surprised by impish echoes of his own footsteps." Two-page preface by Thomas Hardy written August 1895 to the fore. ***Illustrated with a map of Wessex & black & white tissue-guarded frontispiece etching by H. ***This copy has mixed first (early) and second states signatures, with two printed page numbers at the end of the chapters signatures A to H, and two printed page numbers in the later signatures. First edition of Thomas Hardy's final novel, the eighth volume in "The Wessex Novels" (thus published for the first time in book-form). Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Issued. ![]()
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