Far from the Madding Crowd

by Thomas Hardy

$10,000 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

First edition

First edition, one of 1000 copies. iv , 333; iv , 342 pp. With 12 plate illustrations by Helen Paterson; frontispieces with tissue paper in each volume. Printeed by William Moore & Co. 2 vols. 8vo. Bound in forest green half morocco backed marble boards with gilt ruling, gilt titles on five-banded spine, and t.e.g. Marble endpapers with handsome bookplate of heiress Gustavia Senff on upper pastedowns, and a collected list of all Hardy volumes in neat

• Binding: Leather

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