Accession number
PML 143211
Creator
Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928.
Published
London ; Boston : Philip Lee Warner, Publisher to The Medici Society Ltd., 1921.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Wood engraved frontispiece portrait of Hardy and t.p. vignette after Nicholson, both printed in black and fawn.
"Of this edition of the Selected poems of Thomas Hardy have been printed in the Riccardi fount on handmade Riccardi paper 1025 copies, of which 1000 only are for sale, and upon vellum 14 copies, of which 12 are for sale. Vellum copy no."--half t.p. verso.
Library has copy no. 10 of 14 printed on vellum.
"Here end the selected poems of Thomas Hardy, O.M., now printed in the Riccardi Press fount at the Chiswick Press by arrangement with Messrs. Macmillan & Co. Ltd. Published by Philip Lee Warner for the Medici Society, Ltd. at VII Grafton St. London & at DCCLV Boylston Street, Boston MCMXXI"--colophon.
"Of this edition of the Selected poems of Thomas Hardy have been printed in the Riccardi fount on handmade Riccardi paper 1025 copies, of which 1000 only are for sale, and upon vellum 14 copies, of which 12 are for sale. Vellum copy no."--half t.p. verso.
Library has copy no. 10 of 14 printed on vellum.
"Here end the selected poems of Thomas Hardy, O.M., now printed in the Riccardi Press fount at the Chiswick Press by arrangement with Messrs. Macmillan & Co. Ltd. Published by Philip Lee Warner for the Medici Society, Ltd. at VII Grafton St. London & at DCCLV Boylston Street, Boston MCMXXI"--colophon.
Description
x, 144 p., [1] leaf ; ill. (wood engravings) ; 24 cm.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Limp vellum with green cloth ties.
Classification
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