Jude the Obscure, finely bound

by Bayntun-Riviere by Thomas Hardy

$1,200 · Offered by Churchill Book Collector

London: Osgood, McIlvaine & Co., 1896. First volume edition. Full leather. This first volume edition of Jude the Obscure, Hardy’s fourteenth, final, and most controversial novel, is finely bound by Bayntun-Riviere in full dark green Morocco. The binding spine features raised, gilt-tooled bands and six gilt-ruled compartments, the second and third printed with title and author, the rest featuring a centered oak leaf

• Binding: Leather

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