HARDY, Thomas.

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The Writings. In Prose and Verse. With Prefaces and Notes. The Autograph Edition, number 34 of 153 sets signed by the author, here a particularly fine set in the publisher's binding.The edition, alongside the contemporaneous Wessex Edition in Britain, offered the final and definitive version of Hardy's writings, including unprinted material in Tess of the D'Urbervilles and expanded prefaces. "Hardy took an active interest in the edition, read the proofs of some of the volumes, and may have participated in choosing the four Hermann Lea photographs reproduced in each volume" (Millgate, p. 365).

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