Shelfmark
Ku.3.31 (Copy 1)
Additional shelfmark
Kss.2.20 (Copy 2)
Author
Title
The mayor of Casterbridge : the life and death of a man of character / by Thomas Hardy.
Edition
Uniform ed.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Macmillan and Co., 1902.
Physical description
vii, 405, [1], [1] leaf of plates : map ; 19 cm.
Series statement
(Thomas Hardy's works : the Wessex novels ; III)
Note
Original dark blue cloth ; TH monogram medallion in gold on front board.
Note
Five leaves of advertisements following map.
Citation/references note
Purdy, p. 281
Provenance
(Copy 1) Believed to be Mr Brindley's personal copy of the novel, which he had rebound and interleaved with material he had collected himself.
Provenance
(Copy 1) Ms. note on front endpaper: "H W T Viner"; with unknown coat of arms on front pastedown.
Provenance
(Copy 2) Stamp of previous owner "R. M. Gill Dean" on half title page.
Copy-specific note
(Copy 1) Rebound in red cloth with gilt lettering on spine.
Copy-specific note
(Copy 1) Interleaved with original b/w photographs, newspaper cuttings and other ephemeral material relating to Hardy. All material is backed on card.
Copy-specific note
(Copy 1) Signed autograph note from Hardy to Mr Brindley, dated 28 July 1910, is tipped in to p.vii. Hardy thanks Mr Brindley for his note of congratulations regarding his O.M. It is not listed in Millgate's Collected Letters of Thomas Hardy.
Copy-specific note
(Copy 1) The original b/w photographs, presumably taken by Mr Brindley, are of original locations in and around Dorchester that inspired Hardy's settings in the novel. They include The King's Arms, the Maumbury Rings and the various cottages and paths referred to in the novel. Typed references and information about each place are pasted to the verso of the leaf. These photographs do not feature in Lea, 1913.
Copy-specific note
(Copy 1) Newspaper cuttings about Hardy and his works include debate about the sale of Henchard's wife and memorials to Hardy at the back of the vol.
Copy-specific note
(Copy 1) Envelope addressed to Sydney Cockerell by Hardy pasted to rear endpaper. It is dated 1915 in ?Brindley's hand.
Added entry--name
Macmillan & Co. publisher.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B35484