FIRST EDITION TWO VOLUMES. RECENTLY PROFESSIONALLY RESTORED AND RE-BOUND IN FULL CALF RAISED BANDS AND GILT TITLES NEW ENDPAPERS. HENCE A VERY ATTRACTIVE AND TIGHT SET. A NUMBER OF (MISSING) PAGES HAVE BEEN BY REPLACED BY FACSIMILIES INCLUDING THE TITLE PAGE AND PRELIMS. OF VOLUME 1. PAGES 1631 TO 1648 ARE BOUND IN AFTER FINIS. THE INDEX (PAGES 1689 TO 17550 ARE PHOTOCOPIES. WITH NUMEROUS (OVER 2000) WOODCUTS IN THE TEXT. VOLUME 1 874 pp VOLUME TO 875 TO 1688 PLUS INDEX TO PAGE 1755. IN SUMMARY: A LOVELY BINDING OF A COMPLETE COPY BUT WITH MANY FACSIMILIE PAGES.
CUI POST NOVISSIMAM LONDINENSEM EDITONEM COMPLURIEM ERUDITORUM VIRORUM COLLECTIS CURIS INSIGNITER AUCTAM ACCESSERUNT NUNC PRIMUM HENRICI STEPHANI. IN FOUR VOLUMES FOLIO TITLE PAGE IN RED AND BLACK LATIN TEXT FINE EARLY FULL VELLUM GILT DECORATION TO BOTH BOARDS RAISED BANDS DECORATED COMPARTMENTS BROWN AND TAN CALF LABELS. BOOKPLATE OF GEORGE CHETWYND LACKS TIE RIBBONS.
LIMITED EDITION FINE COPY IN FULL BROWN LEATHER MARBLED ENDPAPERS AND BOOKMARK. A.E.G. RAISED BANDS GILT DECORATION. A FINE COPY OF A HANDSOME BOOK. ILLUSTRATED BY JIM SPANFELLER. VERY SCARCE IN THE UK.
FINE HARDBACK IN BLACK CLOTH – NO DUSTWRAP. THE IMPORTANCE OF `STUDIES SPECIMENS ETC.`NOTEBOOK CAN SCARCELY BE EXAGGERATED. ALTHOUGH NOT ONE OF THE DIARY-NOTEBOOKS IT STANDS ALMOST ALONE AS A WITNESS TO HARDY`S EXERTIONS AND ASPERATIONS IN THE MID 1860`S. WHILE THE NOTEBOOK CONTAINS NO DRAFTS OF ACTUAL POEMS IT IS OF EXTRAORDINARY INTEREST AS PROVIDING DETAILED EVIDENCE OF THE WAYS IN WHICH HARDY WAS SEEKING TO PROVIDE HIMSELF WITH A POETIC BACKGROUND AND EDUCATING HIMSELF IN POETIC TECHNIQUES.
PRIVATELY PRINTED AND LIMITED TO 950 COPIES BLUE CARD BUCKRUM SPINE. THIS COPY HAS AN INSCRIPTION ON THE FEP BY NEWTON AND SIGNED BY HIM. VERY GOOD. INCLUDES FACSIMILIES OF HARDY’S LETTERS. NEWTON WAS A BIBLIOPHILE AND KEEN BOOK COLLECTOR. SCARCE.
FIRST EDITION QUARTO VERY GOOD COPY IN RED BOARDS DECORATED IN GILT WITH A SLIGHTLY FADED SPINE. ILLUSTRATIONS BY G. DENHOLM ARMOUR. IN A SERIES OF FAMILIAR LETTERS. INTRODUCED BY E.D. CUMING.
