The Well-Beloved

by Thomas Hardy

$300 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

First American edition. Etched frontispiece with tissue guard by H. Macbeth-Raeburn and map of Wessex at end. 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; lightly bumped lower corner but otherwise a near fine copy. Purdy pp 92-96. Item #365076

• Binding: Leather

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