Young Thomas Hardy [with] The Older Hardy
( Thomas HARDY ) GITTINGS, Robert
[Complete set].
NEAR FINE SET IN DUSTWRAPPERS
Published: Heinemann, [1975-78]
Stock code: 49567
Price: £48.00
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with frontispieces and 54 plates on 32; cloth (red/navy respectively) , gilt backs, coloured tops (red and blue respectively), a near fine set in dustwrapper.
Gitting's meticulously researched biography includes a fierce refutation of the 'Tryphena Sparks' controversy originating in Deacon & Coleman's 'Providence and Mr. Hardy' (1966).