Hardcover
1919 · London
by Hardy, Thomas
London: Macmillan, 1919. Wessex Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 23 (of 24) volumes. Vols. I-XXII uniformly bound in contemporary brown 3/4 leather. Vol. XXIII is bound in the original cloth (backstrip sunned). 23cm. The title-page each volume is preceded in reverse order by a frontispiece, a half-title and a "Wessex Edition" half-title. Some foxing and browning (mostly confined to frontises, title-pages and other leaves at beginning and end of volumes). An attractive set. Includes Vols. I-XVIII (complete) of Prose and Vols. I-IV (of 6) of Verse. Vols. I and II of the Prose series are 2nd printings of the Wessex Edition, being dated respectively 1917 and 1919; all other volumes in this set are first Wessex Edition printings being dated 1912 (Vols. III-XVII of Prose and Vol. I of Verse), 1913 (Vols. II and III of Verse), 1914 (Vol. XVIII of Prose) and 1919 (Vol. IV of Verse). The last two volumes of verse were the last two issued in the set (and presumably after this set was purchased) -- Vol. V of Verse and Vol. XXIII in the set (Late Lyrics and Earlier, and the Famous Tragedy of the Queen of Cornwall) in 1926 is present here in cloth (backstrip sunned to red); Vol. VI of Verse and Vol. XXIII in the set (Human Shows and Winter Words) was published in 1931 and is absent from this set. (Inventory #: 86194)