The Hand of Ethelberta. A Comedy in Chapters

by Thomas Hardy

$1,250 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available

First edition

Du Maurier, George. First edition, 1000 copies printed. viii , 322; viii , 318 pp. Illustrated with 11 plates by George Du Maurier. 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. Light foxing on half titles, and an early pencil annotation on page 135

• Binding: Leather

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