Lot 375 , Hardy, Thomas - The Well-Beloved: a sketch of a temperament....First Edition. etched frontis. and the Wessex map, half (and series) title; publisher's gilt cloth, 1897; sold with 3 other Wessex Novels (Return of the Nati

° Hardy, Thomas - The Well-Beloved: a sketch of a temperament....First Edition. etched frontis. and the Wessex map, half (and series) title; publisher's gilt cloth, 1897; sold with 3 other Wessex Novels (Return of the Native, Trumpet Major, Two on a Tower - all publisher's cloth, 1895); together with 2 others - Life’s Little Ironies, 6th edition, 1894 and Tess of the D’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman, ‘’5th edition’’ (Purdey p.77) and 6 related books on Hardy and Wessex, (12).
£80-120

Condition:
Well Beloved - lt. spine wear, short split upper bd., inner hinges cracked, few inside spots and creases, publ. as vol. xvii of the Wessex Novels; Trumpet Major - tear at spine head; Life's Little Ironies. 6th ed., 1894 (publr's cloth, lt. spine wear); Tess - 5th ed., 1892 (new preface by author), publr's cloth, portrait; Others - Draper's Hardy's England (repr. 1984, intro. Fowles); Abercrombie's Thos. Hardy (1912); Cecil's Hardy the Novelist (1943); Holmes's Wanderings in Wessex (ca.1920); Sherren's The Wessex of Romance (1902)

Sold for £50