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Trumpet-Major: A Tale
de HARDY, Thomas
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London: Smith, Elder & Co, 1880. London: Smith, Elder, & Co. 1880.
First edition. Three volumes, octavo (7 1/2 x 5 in., 190 x 127 mm).
Publisher's pictorial red cloth, stamped in black on front covers, blind-stamped (triple-ruled border) on back covers. Spines stamped in gilt and black. Spines very slightly sunned. Inner hinged of volume I starting, but firm. Two previous owner's bookplates on front pastedowns of each volume. Overall an about fine, bright copy house in a quarter morocco clamshell.
As Purdy explains, the Smith-Elder imprint of Spottiswoode & Co. The fine pictorial binding depicts two vignettes drawn by Hardy on the fronts, a millhouse in the bottom half and an encampment in the top and the spines have a sword crossed by a horn. This set with the triple-rule border in blind, is less common than those featuring a double-rule border.
Literature: Purdy, pp. 31-35; Sterling 427; Sadleir 1115
HBS 66272.
$22,500.
First edition. Three volumes, octavo (7 1/2 x 5 in., 190 x 127 mm).
Publisher's pictorial red cloth, stamped in black on front covers, blind-stamped (triple-ruled border) on back covers. Spines stamped in gilt and black. Spines very slightly sunned. Inner hinged of volume I starting, but firm. Two previous owner's bookplates on front pastedowns of each volume. Overall an about fine, bright copy house in a quarter morocco clamshell.
As Purdy explains, the Smith-Elder imprint of Spottiswoode & Co. The fine pictorial binding depicts two vignettes drawn by Hardy on the fronts, a millhouse in the bottom half and an encampment in the top and the spines have a sword crossed by a horn. This set with the triple-rule border in blind, is less common than those featuring a double-rule border.
Literature: Purdy, pp. 31-35; Sterling 427; Sadleir 1115
HBS 66272.
$22,500.
Sinopsis
Thomas Hardy was born on June 2, 1840. In his writing, he immortalized the site of his birth—Egdon Heath, in Dorset, near Dorchester. Delicate as a child, he was taught at home by his mother before he attended grammar school. At sixteen, Hardy was apprenticed to an architect, and for many years, architecture was his profession; in his spare time, he pursued his first and last literary love, poetry. Finally convinced that he could earn his living as an author, he retired from architecture, married, and devoted himself to writing. An extremely productive novelist, Hardy published an important book every year or two. In 1896, disturbed by the public outcry over the unconventional subjects of his two greatest novels— Tess of the D’Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure —he announced that he was giving up fiction and afterward produced only poetry. In later years, he received many honors. He died on January 11, 1928, and was buried in Poet’s Corner, in Westminster Abbey. It was as a poet that he wished to be remembered, but today critics regard his novels as his most memorable contribution to English literature for their psychological insight, decisive delineation of character, and profound presentation of tragedy.
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 66272
- Título
- Trumpet-Major: A Tale
- Autor
- HARDY, Thomas
- Estado del libro
- Usado
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- 1
- Editorial
- Smith, Elder & Co
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1880
- Peso
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- Palabras clave
- English Literature|Nineteenth-Century Literature
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- Gilt
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- Fine
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- Octavo
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