Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
£340.00
First edition
Published by Osgood, McIlvaine and Co, London 1896.
Description
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
A first edition of Jude the Obscure. published by Osgood, McIlvaine and Co in The Wessex Novels, a set of seventeen volumes as the first attempt to collect Hardy’s prose work in a uniform edition, preceding Macmillan’s Wessex edition of 1912-4, and the Mellstock edition of 1919-20. With an etching by H. Macbeth Raeburn and a map of Wessex. Original green cloth boards with rubbed gilt and wear to the extremities. Top edge gilt. Lean to the book. Stains on the upper board. Hinge lightly weak in places and holding well. 515pp. 8vo.
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