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.
