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The Woodlanders

HARDY, Thomas

PUBLISHER'S PRESENTATION COPY IN PRIMARY BINDING

Published: Macmillan, 1887

Stock code: 6350

Price: £3,000.00

ONE OF MACMILLAN'S FEW PRESENTATION COPIES, with neat 'With the Publisher's Compliments' stamp in ink on upper margins of titles. With the advertisement leaf in vol. I as called for. 'The Woodlanders' was published in an edition of 1000 copies on 15 March 1887. Only 860 copies were bound up in this (primary) binding; the remaining copies were bound in the similar, but less detailed, secondary binding and remaindered by the publisher by the end of June of the same year. It was never reprinted in three-volume form. A pencilled note on rear free endpaper indicates that the sympathetic rebacking was effected by George Bayntun of Bath. Written at Max Gate, 'The Woodlanders' was referred to by Hardy as 'his best and his own favourite among his novels'. See Purdy, p.54-57.