A Laodicean. [Or, The Castle of the De Stancys.] [in Harper’s Monthly Magazine, European Edition, December 1880-May 1882.]
( George DU MAURIER, illus. ) HARDY, Thomas
[With illustrations by George Du Maurier. ORIGINAL SERIAL PUBLICATION.]
COMPLETE SET OF THE ORIGINAL SERIAL PUBLICATION
Published: Sampson Low Marston Searle & Rivington 1881-1882, 1881
Stock code: 49577
Price: £720.00
3 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, with illustrations (all save one full-page); original brown cloth, upper boards and backstrips framed, blocked and lettered in gilt and black, black endpapers, expertly rebacked with old backstrips laid down, a remarkably bright, clean copy.
FIRST PUBLICATION OF HARDY'S EIGHTH NOVEL, preceding the US edition of Harper's and the later three-decker.. Harpers Monthly Magazine. European Edition. Vol. I: December 1880 - May 1881; Vol. II: June November 1991; Vol. III: December 1881 May 1882. One illustration was omitted from the US serial version. All illustrations were omitted, and the sub-title added, when the novel was published in book form (3 vols., 1881). COMPLETE SETS ARE SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. See Purdy, pp.37-38.