Kss.2.08 (Copy 1)
Kss.2.08a (Copy 2)
Jude the obscure / by Thomas Hardy ; with an etching by H. Macbeth-Raeburn ; and a map of Wessex.
1st ed.
London : James R. Osgood McIlvaine & Co., 1896.
515 p. : etching, map ; 20 cm.
(The Wessex novels ; VIII)
Dark green bold-ribbed cloth ; front blocked in gold with TH monogram medallion ; back plain ; gold lettered on spine.
The format is uniform with Osgood's edition of the Wessex Novels (7 already published by this point).
Released on 1 November 1895. Postdated 1896.
(Copy 2) Booklabel of Clement James Mellish Adie (1876-1954), chief Warden at Eton College, on front pastedown. Eton College School Library plate on front flyeaf.
See Purdy, p. 86-87. Signatures A-H contain a mix of states. Some signatures have numbers on partially blank pages and others don't.
Macbeth-Raeburn, H. (Henry), 1860 - 1947 illustrator.
Adie, C. J. M. (Clement James Mellish), 1876 - 1954 former owner.
James R. Osgood, McIlvaine & Co. publisher.
Eton College School Library former owner.
England London.
eng
B36485