The Mayor of Casterbridge: the Life and Death of a Man of Character

by Thomas Hardy

$5,000 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available

First edition

First edition. iv , 313; iv , 312 pp. 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; near fine. Purdy, pp. 50-54; Sadleir 1111. Item #365080

• Binding: Leather

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