Kx.4.07
[Another copy:] Kx.4.17
Domicilium / by Thomas Hardy.
Limited ed.
[London : printed for private circulation by Clement Shorter, 1916]
[10] p. ; 23 cm.
Imprint from colophon.
See Purdy, p. 176.
Colophon: "Of this Poem by Thomas Hardy, twenty-five copies have been privately printed by Clement Shorter for distribution among his friends.".
Sewn in original stiff purple paper wrappers (lined with white) ; front printed in black as t.p.
Bookplate of Frederick Baldwin Adams Jr on front pastedown (Acquired at the Frederick Adams Sotheby's sale in 2001 by Kessler).
Book label of Nicholas Kessler at foot of front pastedown.
1 of 25 copies printed by Clement Shorter (not signed or numbered).
1 TLS from Clement Shorter to Mr Paul Lemperly, Ohio, dated 1916, loosely inserted.
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.4.06).
Shorter, Clement King, 1857 - 1926 publisher.
England London.
B35691