Ktt.2.08
A class-book of French literature : comprehending specimens of the most distinguished writers from the earliest period to the beginning of the present century, with biographical notices, explanatory notes, synoptical tables, and a copious index. / by Gustave Masson ...
5th ed.
Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, 1870.
670 p. ; 19 cm.
Half brown calf over purple bevelled cloth ; gilt lettering on spine ; sprinkled tail and fore-edge.
From Thomas Hardy's library. Red bookplate on front pastedown: "From the library of Thomas Hardy, O.M. Max Gate".
Lightly marked and annotated. Translations of individual words (e.g., p. 586) probably in Hardy's hand. Some notes probably not.
Signed in ms. by Hardy on front endpaper.
Name of previous owner ("H. C. T. Mason[?]") crossed out on tail edge.
French literature.
Hardy, Thomas, 1840 - 1928 former owner.
Adam and Charles Black publisher.
Scotland Edinburgh.
B36169