Wessex tales : that is to say, An imaginative woman; The three strangers; The withered arm; Fellow-townsmen; Interlopers at the Knap; and The distracted preacher / by Thomas Hardy ; with an etching by H. Macbeth-Raeburn and a map of Wessex.

Accession number

PML 132673

Creator

Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928.

Published

London : Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., 1896.

Credit line

Bequest; Gordon N. Ray; 1987.

Notes

"Printed by Ballantyne, Hanson & Co., Edinburgh and London"--Colophon.
"To Augustus John from Thomas Hardy"--Written in pen on p. [2] of cover.
Frontispiece accompanied by guardsheet with descriptive letterpress.

Description

vii, 290, [1] p., [1] leaf of plates : 1 ill., 1 map ; 21 cm

Provenance

From the library of Gordon N. Ray.

Binding

Bound in deep blue-green cloth over boards; stamped in gold on front cover and spine; top edges trimmed and gilt; in morocco case by Riviere and Son.

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Wessex tales : that is to say, An imaginative woman; The three strangers; The withered arm; Fellow-townsmen; Interlopers at the Knap; and The distracted preacher / by Thomas Hardy ; with an etching by H. Macbeth-Raeburn and a map of Wessex.