Ku.2.16
Three notable stories : Love and peril, to be, or not to be, the melancholy hussar / respectively by the Marquis of Lorne, K.G., Mrs. Alexander, Thomas Hardy.
1st ed.
London : Spencer Blackett, 1890.
211, [4] p. ; 19 cm.
Publisher's ?secondary binding of red cloth ; lettering in black.
With 4 p. of publisher's advertisements at back.
Bookplate of David Leslie Robin Guthrie on front pastedown.
See Purdy, p. 82 - t.p. is not a cancel, with the Marquis of Lorne incorrectly styled K. G. Possibly remaindered with a secondary binding.
ALS from Hardy to Tillotson & Son, dated Dec 2. 1889, tipped in to front endpaper. It accompanied the corrected proof of The Melancholy Hussar and also discusses the possibility of a serial. See Millgate, Collected Letters, v. 1, p. 204.
Spencer Blackett publisher.
England London.
B35505