HARDY, Thomas.

£2,250 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

The Trumpet-Major. First edition in book form, one of 1,000 sets produced. Set during the Napoleonic war, this Wessex novel was written to commemorate the 75th anniversary of Trafalgar and incorporates comic elements to move away from its darker predecessor, The Return of the Native (1878).The Trumpet-Major was published on 26 October before the conclusion of the slightly bowdlerized serial in Good Words, which ran from January to December 1880.

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