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.
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LIMITED TO 300 COPIES THIS BEING NUMBER 69. QUARTO INTRODUCTION BY KATHLEEN RAINE. OATMEAL CLOTH PRINTED ON ABBEY MILLS ANTIQUE LAID. MOROCCO LABEL GILT LETTERING. A FINE COPY.
SPECIAL LIMITED EDITION OF 50 COPIES THIS BEING NUMBER 43 SIGNED BY THE TRANSLATOR MICHAEL HAMBURGER. PRINTED ON ZERKALL MOULD-MADE PAPER AND BOUND IN HAND-MARBLED BOARDS FROM COCKERELL MARBLED PAPERS AT THE RAMPANT LIONS PRESS. TEXT IN ENGLISH AND GERMAN. TRANSLATED BY MICHAEL HAMBURGER. A FINE COPY.
