recased and tightened vols ii and iii a little shaken and slack a handful of minor flaws, but a rare cloth set. Original holly-green cloth, ruled in black and lettered in gilt a touch dulled lightly worn at extremities endpapers strained at hinges (two with neat repair) vol. Controversial for its time, but “his loveliest if not his finest book” (Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch) and “the most beautiful and most noble of Hardy’s novels” (William Lyon Phelps) – and indeed Hardy’s own favourite – “On taking up ‘The Woodlanders’ and reading it after many years, I like it as a story best of all”. The story of Grace Melbury, the faithful Giles Winterborne, and the faithless Edred Fitzpiers. First edition : one of just 860 copies in the primary binding. HARDY, Thomas, 1840-1928 : THE WOODLANDERS. To purchase, call us or e-mail us at quoting stock number 37344 – or simply click on the button Bound, complete with half-titles, in a very attractive later (early twentieth-century) full tan morocco, banded and extra gilt, by Birdsall original cloth preserved at rear top edges gilt marbled endpapers a couple of faint scuffs a few internal faint creases and small flaws endpapers lightly tanned, but a very handsome set.

The author, in fact, has imagined and described a woman with whom few of his male readers will not fall in love” (contemporary review in The Athenaeum). One of Hardy’s most original, interesting and controversial novels – a Wessex tale of star-crossed lovers in which he aimed “to make science, not the mere padding of a romance, but the actual vehicle of romance” – “We have known military novels, sporting and dramatic novels, law and police novels, but an astronomical novel never.

First edition : one of 1,000 copies of the first issue text, before the corrections made for the virtually identical second impression. London : Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1882. HARDY, Thomas, 1840-1928 : TWO ON A TOWER. UNITED KINGDOM Tel: (+44)-(0)20-8672-2263ĬLICK ON REFRESH/RELOAD TO ENSURE YOU HAVE THE UPDATED VERSION OF THIS PAGE

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