Kx.5.32
The poetry of William Barnes / by Thomas Hardy.
Limited ed.
London : privately printed at The Tragara Press, 1979.
12 p. ; 19 cm.
Original marbled card wrappers ; with title label pasted to front wrapper.
Reissue of Hardy's 1879 review of Barnes' "Poems of rural life in the Dorset dialect". Hardy wrote the review at the request of C. Kegan Paul, the publisher of the New Quarterly Magazine, and it appeared anonymously in the issue for October 1879. See the textual note on p. 3 and Purdy, p. 295.
"Ninety-five copies printed by hand on Barcham Green paper. October 1979. Number 42" - from colophon.
Barnes, William
Tragara Press. publisher.
England London.
B35656