1967 Hardy's River

Description

First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper

Signed by the author to the title page. 

The first edition, first impression. 

With the publisher's unclipped dust wrapper.

A well-versed guide through the River Frome, nicknamed here by the author as "Hardy's River" after English novelist Thomas Hardy, who describes the river in 'Tess of the d'Ubervilles' and famously drew inspiration from the landscapes of Somerset and the south-west region for fictional literary landscape, Wessex. The author traces the course of the River Frome and describes the places along its course in relation to Hardy’s work.

Written by Monica Hutchings, a prolific author who resided in Sherborne and wrote both fiction and non-fiction works, as well as articles about the West Country.

Illustrated with a monochrome frontispiece and seventeen monochrome plates. Collated, complete.