Ku.5.23 - Ku.5.25
A pair of blue eyes : a novel / by Thomas Hardy ... ; in three volumes.
1st ed.
London : Tinsley Brothers, 1873.
3 v. ; 19 cm.
Green diagonal-fine-ribbed cloth ; blocked in black on front and back with Oxford frame ; gold-lettered on spine with bands blocked in black and gold at top and bottom.
Purdy, p.8-9.
In quarter green morocco case.
The presence of the Tinsley Brothers' catalogue, dated March 1873, at end of the 3rd vol suggests this is an early copy. According to Purdy (p. 9), copies often lack this catalogue, suggesting that the binders' supply was soon exhausted.
Tinsley Brothers publisher.
England London.
B35396