Shelfmark
Kss.5.07
Author
Title
The Wessex of romance / by Wilkinson Sherren ; with illustrations.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Chapman & Hall, ..., 1902.
Physical description
312 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Note
Red vertically-ribbed cloth ; lettering in gilt on spine and front board.
Provenance
Author's copy. Signed in ms. by the author on front pastedown and contains ms. authorial corrections. Several letters from various people tipped-in throughout the text, presumably all in response to having been sent presentation copies by the author.
Copy-specific note
ALS signed by Theodore Watts-Dunton, dated 19 April 1902, tipped to t.p. Written from The Pines, Putney.
Copy-specific note
ALS from Miss Belham Edwards tipped to p. ix.
Copy-specific note
ALS from Emma Hardy presumably to the author, dated June 19 1902, tipped to p. 7. Emma compliments the book and provides additional detail about her early relationship with Hardy. She also hopes that the author will "doubtless [...] correct in [the] new edition the errors unavoidable in a first - which occurs in the dialect index".
Copy-specific note
1 folded leaf of ms. corrections tipped to rear endpaper. Presumably sent with her ALS to the author. 3 additional ms. corrections in another hand, likely to be Hardy's.
Copy-specific note
ALS from Edmund Gosse to the author tipped to p. 55. Gosse thanks the author for the presentation copy of the book.
Copy-specific note
ALS from "Victor", dated April 11 1902, tipped to p. 150. The paper is headed "Wyke Regis, Weymouth". It mentions Alfred Pretor, a friend of the Hardy's and a don at Cambridge.
Copy-specific note
ALS tipped to p. 6. Author not identifiable.
Subject
Added entry--name
Gosse, Edmund, 1849 - 1928 associated name.
Added entry--name
Hardy, Emma Lavinia Gifford, 1840 - 1912 associated name.
Added entry--name
Watts-Dunton, Theodore, 1832 - 1914 associated name.
Added entry--name
Chapman and Hall publisher.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B36284