Shelfmark
Ku.4.15
Additional shelfmark
[Another copy:] Kss.2.10
Author
Title
The hand of Ethelberta : a comedy in chapters / by Thomas Hardy ; with an etching by H. Macbeth-Raeburn ; and a map of Wessex.
Edition
1st uniform and complete ed.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., 1896.
Physical description
479 p. : 1 map, frontispiece ; 20 cm.
Series statement
(The Wessex novels ; vol. X)
Note
Original dark green bold-ribbled cloth ; TH monogram medallion in gold on front board ; with original dust-jacket.
Note
Purdy, p. 23, 280.
Note
Vol. X of 'The Wessex novels' (1st uniform and complete edition) published by Osgood, McIlvaine & Co. between 1895-6.
Note
Hardy wrote a preface in December 1895 for this edition, and the novel is reduced from 50 to 48 chapters (see Purdy, p. 23).
Provenance
[Ku.4.15:] Autographed presentation copy from Hardy to The Animal World society. Signed and inscribed in ms. by Hardy on front endpaper: ""Let my horse have his due" (Shakespeare. H.IV.iii.7). Thomas Hardy".
Copy-specific note
[Ku.4.15:] Newspaper cutting about this presentation copy pasted to following endpaper. It describes how Hardy sent The Animal World society an autographed copy to be sold for the benefit of their fund. The article is dated February 1928.
Added entry--name
Macbeth-Raeburn, H. (Henry), 1860 - 1947 illustrator.
Added entry--name
James R. Osgood, McIlvaine & Co. publisher.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B35447