The Art of Thomas Hardy
( Thomas HARDY ) ( William STRANG, illus. ) JOHNSON, Lionel
Together with a new Portrait by Vernon Hill and the etched Portrait by William Strang. [New Edition.]
BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE BEST EDITION
Published: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1923
Stock code: 41721
Price: £20.00
8vo., New Edition, on laid paper, with frontispiece and title in red and black, and etched portrait plate, tiny contemporary signature on front free endpaper; green cloth, upper board framed in blind, gilt back, dark top, uncut, joints lightly rubbed else a very good, bright, clean copy.
An elegant copy of an important study first published in 1894. This revised edition includes a newly extended bibliography by John Lane. Strang's portrait of Hardy, commissioned by Lane for the frontispiece of the original edition and present here as a plate, is widely considered to be the artist's finest etching.