Shelfmark
Ku.1.05
Additional shelfmark
[Another copy:] Kss.2.01
Author
Title
Tess of the d'Urbervilles : a pure woman / faithfully presented by Thomas Hardy ; with two etchings by H. Macbeth-Raeburn ; and a map of Wessex.
Edition
1st uniform and complete ed.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : James R. Osgood, McIlvaine, and Co., 1895.
Physical description
519 p. : 2 etchings, map ; 21 cm.
Series statement
(The Wessex novels ; I)
Note
Dark green bold-ribbed cloth ; front blocked in gold with TH monogram medallion.
Note
See Purdy, p. 279.
Provenance
[Ku.1.05:] Mrs McIlvaine's copy. Signed in ms. by "Mary G. McIlvaine, 1895" on front endpaper.
Provenance
[Ku.1.05:] Presumably purchased by Guthrie.
Provenance
[Ku.1.05:] Bookplate of John Walworth Scranton on front pastedown.
Copy-specific note
[Ku.1.05:] ALS from Hardy to McIlvaine, dated 4.3.95, tipped-in to front endpaper. Hardy agrees with McIlvaine's proposals involving this collected edition of Tess. See Millgate, Collected Letters, vol. 2, p. 71.
Copy-specific note
[Ku.1.05:] Typed transcription of the tipped-in ALS and invoice from Blackwell to Guthrie loosely inserted.
Genre/Form
Fiction.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
James R. Osgood, McIlvaine & Co. publisher.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B35536