Kx.5.07
Poems of the past and the present / by Thomas Hardy.
1st ed.
London ; New York : Harper & Brothers, 1902.
260, [1] p. ; 20 cm.
(Thomas Hardy's works)
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.
See Purdy, p. 107.
Signed by previous owner on front endpaper.
Presumably forged ms. of 'At the war office after a bloody battle' loosely inserted. Although signed 'Thomas Hardy', the ms. does not appear to be in Hardy's hand.
Harper & Brothers publisher.
England London.
B35599