The Return of the Native

by Thomas Hardy

$7,800 · Offered by Honey & Wax Booksellers

London: Smith, Elder Co., 1878. Three volumes, measuring 7.5 x 5 inches: 6 , 303, 1 ; 6 , 297, 3 ; 6 , 320. Original brown cloth stamped in black and blind, spines decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt and black; cream-coated endpapers. Frontispiece map, after a drawing by Hardy, facing title page in Volume I; two pages of publisher’s advertisements at end of Volume II. Red morocco-gilt bookplates of collector

• Binding: Leather

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