[The Novels and Stories complete in Folio Society.]
( Peter REDDICK, illus. ) HARDY, Thomas
Illustrated with wood-engravings by Peter Reddick. [Introductions in all but first two volumes.]
THE FOLIO HARDY: THE NOVELS AND STORIES COMPLETE IN SLIP-CASES
Published: Folio Society, [1968-1994]
Stock code: 51693
Price: £520.00
18 volumes, 8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispieces, wood-engravings in the text and endpaper maps; cloth, upper boards blocked with corn-dolly device, gilt back, coloured endpapers, coloured tops, a near fine set in publisher's slip-cases blocked in gilt.
The set comprises: The Mayor of Casterbridge (1968); The Return of the Native (1971); Far From the Madding Crowd (1985); Wessex Tales (1987); Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1988); Under the Greenwood Tree (1989); The Trumpet Major (1990); The Woodlanders (1991); Jude the Obscure (1992); A Pair of Blue Eyes/The Well-Beloved/Two on a Tower (1992; boxed set as 'Romances and Fantasies'); Desperate Remedies/The Hand of Ethelberta/A Laodicean (1993; boxed set as 'Novels of Ingenuity'); A Changed Man/Life's Little Ironies/A Group of Noble Dames; boxed set as 'Short Stories'). Folio 60: 248, 294, 545, 583, 607, 629, 654, 681, 698.5, 709, 716, 744, 773, 769.5, 896 respectively. COMPLETE SETS OF FIRST PRINTINGS ARE SCARCE.