[The Works of Thomas Hardy.] The Wessex Edition [24 of 25 volumes]. Plus Lea’s ‘Thomas Hardy’s Wessex’.
HARDY, Thomas, [[J.K., ROWLING], ]
THE WESSEX EDITION COMPLETE [SAVE FINAL VOLUME] BUT WITH LEA ADDED
Published: Macmillan, [1912-1930]
Stock code: 52002
Price: £1,200.00
24 [of 25] vols., 8vo., on laid paper, with frontispieces in photogravure (original tissue guards present), half-titles in red, titles in red and black, and double-page map; original series binding of plum cloth, gilt backs, uncut, a few volumes with personal bookplate, a few backstrips variously sunned else a very good, bright, clean set (save one volume).
THE WESSEX EDITION COMPLETE [save only the final and scarcest volume 'Humas Shows/Winter Words'] BUT WITH LEA'S 'THOMAS HARDY'S WESSEX' ADDED. This collection comprises (in order of original publication): Desperate Remedies; Under the Greenwood Tree; A Pair of Blue Eyes; Far From the Madding Crowd; The Hand of Ethelberta; The Return of the Native; The Trumpet-Major; A Laodicean; Two on a Tower; The Mayor Casterbridge; The Woodlanders; Wessex Tales; A Group of Noble Dames; Tess of the D'Urbervilles; Life's Little ironies; Jude the Obscure; The Well-Beloved; Wessex Poems/Poems of the Past and Present; The Dynasts Parts I and II; The Dynasts Part III/ Time's Laughingstocks; Satires of Circumstance/Moments of Vision; Late Lyrics and Earlier/The Queen of Cornwall; Lea: Thomas Hardy's Wessex. 'Tess' includes Hardy's 'General Preface to the Novels and Poems' (October 1911) and several other volumes include new or revised Prefaces. The map of Wessex was drawn by Hardy himself. Lea's 'Handbook' was published in uniform format in 1913. 'The Wessex Edition is in every sense the definitive edition of Hardy's work and the last authority in questions of text' (Purdy). VERY SCARCE.