Ku.1.27
Jude the obscure / by Thomas Hardy ; with an etching by H. Macbeth-Raeburn ; and a map of Wessex.
1st ed.
London : James R. Osgood McIlvaine & Co., 1896.
515 p. : etching, map ; 20 cm.
(The Wessex novels ; VIII)
Dark green bold-ribbed cloth ; front blocked in gold with TH monogram medallion ; back plain ; gold lettered on spine.
The format is uniform with Osgood's edition of the Wessex Novels (7 already published by this point).
Released on 1 November 1895. Postdated 1896.
Ownership inscription on front pastedown: "Harold Shaw".
See Purdy, p. 86-87. Signatures A-H in this copy contain a mix of states. E, F G & H are numbered and the others are not.
Macbeth-Raeburn, H. (Henry), 1860 - 1947 illustrator.
James R. Osgood, McIlvaine & Co. publisher.
England London.
B35579