Shelfmark
Ku.2.17
Author
Title
A group of noble dames : that is to say the first Countess of Wessex, Barbara of the House of Grebe, the Marchioness of Stonehenge, Lady Mottisfont, the Lady Icenway, Squire Petrick's Lady Anna, Lady Baxby, the Lady Penelope, the Duchess of Hamptonshire and the Honourable Laura / by Thomas Hardy.
Edition
1st ed.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : James R. Osgood, McIlvaine, and Co., 1891.
Physical description
271 p. ; 19 cm.
Note
See Purdy, p. 62.
Provenance
Presentation copy. Inscribed in ms. by Hardy to Theodore Watts: "To Theodore Watts, Esq, from Thomas Hardy, June 1891".
Copy-specific note
Publisher's primary smooth white-brown flecked cloth ; front blocked in gold with 6 panels, one filled with 3 conventionalised flowers ; back plain ; spine blocked in gold with bands and ornaments and lettered in brown ; plain endpapers.
Copy-specific note
Bookseller's stub loosely inserted.
Copy-specific note
In brown cloth slip case.
Added entry--name
Watts-Dunton, Theodore, 1832 - 1914 former owner.
Added entry--name
James R. Osgood, McIlvaine & Co. publisher.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B35509