HARDY, Thomas (1840-1928). A Laodicean; or, the Castle of the De Stancys. London: Sampson Low, 1881. 3 vols, 8° (190 x 125mm). (Some mostly marginal spotting, stronger at start and finish of each vol.) Original grey-brown cloth (worn, endpapers renewed, partly torn lending library labels and shadow of earlier labels on the upper sides). Provenance: Redcliffe Library (labels) -- John Arlott. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, published a week after the American edition. Purdy, pp. 36-40; Sadleir 1109.
HARDY, T. The Woodlanders. London: Macmillan, 1887. 3 vols, 8° (192 x 128mm). (A few leaves in vol. I soiled, a few leaves roughly opened affecting margins.) Original green cloth, brown endpapers (extremities rubbed, one hinge starting). FIRST EDITION of the novel 'which Hardy sometimes singled out as the best and his own favourite'. Purdy, pp.54-7. (6)
HARDY, Thomas (1840-1928). A Laodicean; or, the Castle of the De Stancys. London: Sampson Low, 1881. 3 vols, 8° (190 x 125mm). (Some mostly marginal spotting, stronger at start and finish of each vol.) Original grey-brown cloth (worn, endpapers renewed, partly torn lending library labels and shadow of earlier labels on the upper sides). Provenance: Redcliffe Library (labels) -- John Arlott. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, published a week after the American edition. Purdy, pp. 36-40; Sadleir 1109.
HARDY, T. The Woodlanders. London: Macmillan, 1887. 3 vols, 8° (192 x 128mm). (A few leaves in vol. I soiled, a few leaves roughly opened affecting margins.) Original green cloth, brown endpapers (extremities rubbed, one hinge starting). FIRST EDITION of the novel 'which Hardy sometimes singled out as the best and his own favourite'. Purdy, pp.54-7. (6)
