A Laodicean. A Story of To-Day
HARDY, Thomas
New Wessex Edition. Introduction by Barbara Hardy. Notes by Ernest Hardy.
NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Published: Macmillan, [1976]
Stock code: 50655
Price: £34.00
8vo., First Edition thus, with full-page map in the text, neat trade stamp on title; original series binding of green cloth, upper board blocked with 'TH' monogram in gilt, gilt back, green endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
Macmillan's New Wessex Edition (19 vols.) is effectively a successor to the same publisher's definitive Wessex Edition published in 24 volumes (1912-1931). Issued in 19 volumes, the NWE includes the novels, short stories, poetry and drama. First issued in hardback from 1975 and several times reprinted, each volume is a tall, handsome octavo in distinctive green and gilt dustwrapper, with introduction and notes by recognised authorities and the map of Wessex first drawn by Hardy hinself. INDIVIDUAL VOLUMES ARE NOW INCREASINGLY DIFFICULT TO FIND IN THIS CONDITION.