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1898 Wessex Poems and Other Verses
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Description
First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding
The first U.K. edition of this work.
'Wessex Poems' collects together fifty-one poems by Thomas Hardy.
The verse in this volume are set against the Dorset landscape, portrayed as bleak and forbidding. Including 'The Temporary of All', 'Hap', 'Amabel', 'A Confession to a Friend in Trouble', 'Neutral Tones', 'The Dance at the Phoenix', and more.
Illustrated with a frontispiece, and in-text illustrations throughout, by the author. Collated, complete.
Thomas Hardy, was better known as a novelist, who was influenced by Romanticism.
Condition
In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, smart. Light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. very light rubbing to the cloth. Rear hinge is starting but firm. Prior owner's ink inscription to the recto of the front endpaper. Internally, binding is strained in places. Pages are bright and clean.
Very Good
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