Ku.2.06 - Ku.2.08
The woodlanders / by Thomas Hardy ; in three volumes.
1st ed.
London ; New York : Macmillan and Co., 1887.
3 v. ; 20 cm.
Publisher's secondary binding of dark green pebbled cloth ; blocked in black on front and blind on back with single-rule border and inner frame with square corners ; gold-lettered on spine ; with decorative band blocked in black at top and bottom.
See Purdy, p. 54-55.
The secondary binding is distinctively less common than the primary binding and Purdy believes it should be associated with Macmillan's sale of 170 copies at remainder rates (see p. 55).
Bookplate of David Leslie Robin Guthrie on front endpaper of all vols.
Book label of Jerome Kern on the inside of each folder.
In black half morocco slip case.
Macmillan & Co. publisher.
England London.
B35498