The Mayor of Casterbridge. A Story of a Man of Character
HARDY, Thomas
Introduction by Ian Gregor. Notes by Bryn Caless. New Wessex Edition.
BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Published: Macmillan, [1975]
Stock code: 50699
Price: £32.00
8vo., First Edition thus, with full-page map in the text; original series binding of green cloth, upper board blocked in gilt with 'TH' monogram, gilt back, green endpapers, faint stamp on top edge, page-edges toning lightly as often else a very good, bright, clean 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.