Shelfmark
Kx.4.05
Author
Title
Before marching and after / by Thomas Hardy.
Edition
Limited ed.
Publication, distribution, etc.
[London : printed for private distribution by Clement Shorter, 1915]
Physical description
[12] p. ; 23 cm.
Note
Imprint from colophon.
Note
See Purdy, p. 174.
Note
Colophon: "Of this Poem and Foreword, the former of which first appeared in the "Fortnightly Review" for November, 1915, twenty-five copies only have been privately printed, by permission of the Author, for distribution among friends.".
Note
Sewn in original stiff purple paper wrappers (lined with white) ; front printed in black as t.p.
Provenance
Bookplate of Frederick Baldwin Adams Jr on front pastedown (Acquired at the Frederick Adams Sotheby's sale in 2001 by Kessler).
Provenance
Book label of Nicholas Kessler at foot of front pastedown.
Copy-specific note
No. 1 of 25 copies printed by Clement Shorter (in ms. beside colophon).
Copy-specific note
ALS from Hardy to Sir Evelyn Wood, dated Sept 12 1915, loosely inserted. Hardy informs Wood of the death of Frank William George, a cousin of Hardy's, at Gallipoli. See Millgate, Collected Letters, v. 5, p. 122.
Copy-specific note
Housed in four-fold wrapper of quarter red cloth over marbled paper covered boards with 5 other Hardy pamphlets printed privately by Clement Shorter between 1914 and 1916 (Kx.4.02 - Kx.4.04 and Kx.4.06 - Kx.4.07).
Copy-specific note
Typed transcript of ALS and ms. notes about Frank George loosely inserted.
Added entry--name
Shorter, Clement King, 1857 - 1926 publisher.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B35689