On the Western Circuit
HARDY, Thomas
125 COPIES WERE PRINTED
Published: Words Press Dorchester, 2000
Stock code: 51970
Price: £46.00
8vo., First Edition thus, with portrait frontispiece; original wrappers, upper cover with printed paper label, a fine copy.
EDITION LIMITED TO 125 NUMBERED COPIES (THIS COPY NO. 104). The frontispiece reproduces Strang's well-known portrait of the author. Hardy's tale was first published in bowdlerised form in The English Illustrated Magazine, 1891; the revised text was collected in 'Life's Little Ironies', 1894. See Purdy, pp.81-2.