Tess of the D'Urbervilles. A Pure Woman. Faithfully presented by Thomas Hardy. With Wood Engravings by Vivien Gribble. 1500 COPIES WERE PRINTED
Tess of the D'Urbervilles. A Pure Woman. Faithfully presented by Thomas Hardy. With Wood Engravings by Vivien Gribble. 1500 COPIES WERE PRINTED
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Dettagli
- Anno di pubblicazione
- 1926
- Autore
- Hardy Thomas
- Editori
- Macmillan
- Soggetto
- modern first editions, modern firsts, hardy, thomas hardy, gribble, vivien gribble, tess, wood engravings
- Lingue
- Inglese
Descrizione
8vo., First Edition thus, with engraved frontispiece, 40 engravings (a number full-page) and large folding map, neat contemporary signatures on front paste-down; original navy buckram, bevelled boards, gilt back, gilt top, uncut, boards very lightly age-marked, backstrip mildly faded (but all gilt wholly legible), a bright, clean, crisp copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 1500 COPIES. With the trade ticket of Gilbert of Southampton on front paste-down. Printed from the plates of Macmillan's definitive Wessex Edition and so including both the expanded Preface of 1912 and the episode of the dance at the hay-trusser's (pp.76-79) present there for the first time. See Purdy p.77.