HARDY, Thomas.

£15,000 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

The Mayor of Casterbridge. First edition in book form, representing the first publication of the novel in its entirety following its serialization, in bowdlerized form, in Graphic and Harper's Weekly from January to May 1886. The book was published on 10 May 1886 in 758 copies, of which only 650 were bound; it is consequently scarce, especially so in the original cloth.This copy is from the library of Edwin B. Holden (1861-1906), an American book collector and the president of the Grolier Club in 1906, with his bookplates.

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