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The Well-Beloved: A Sketch of a Temperament

First edition of Thomas Hardy's The Well-Beloved: A Sketch of a Temperament

Thomas Hardy; illustrated by H. Macbeth-Raeburn
First edition. 8vo. Pp. [4], [x], 338, [1]. Publisher's vertically ribbed, dark green cloth lettered in gilt to spine, author's wreathed monogram blocked in gilt on upper board; top edge gilt, others untrimmed. With a tissue-guarded etched frontispiece (titled 'The 'Isle' of the Story') by H. Macbeth-Raeburn and a full-page map of Wessex by Hardy to rear. Author's preface, dated January 1897. Issued on laid paper as vol. XVII of the uniform 'Wessex Novels'.
First printed in twelve weekly parts in the Illustrated London News (October 1-December 17, 1892), and here republished with "many scattered passages excised or added, chapters retitled... and an entirely new conclusion substituted."
Offsetting to front free-endpaper, lower corners lightly bumped, else a bright, near-fine copy.
Sculptor Jocelyn Pierston's search for the ideal woman to cast in stone and win his heart. Hardy's last published novel, mostly set on the Isle of Slingers, based on the Isle of Portland in Dorset.
[Purdy, pp. 92–6, 281; Sadleir 1118; Sterling 457; Webb, p. 31; Wolff 2997]
edition
first edition
format
hardback
publisher
James R. Osgood, McIlvaine, and Co.
published in
London
publication year
1897
ISBN
not assigned
genre
literary fiction
language
English
binding style
cloth
binding state
original binding
condition
near fine
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