Lot 275
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Hardy, Thomas [Pre-1900 Dust Jacket]
Life's Little Ironies

Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 07 February 2024 from 10:00 GMT
£1,134
Description
a Set of Tales with some Colloquial Sketches entitled A Few Crusted Characters. London: Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., 1896. 8vo, original blue cloth, etched frontispiece by H. Macbeth Raeburn, map of Wessex to rear, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, with the printed dust jacket (chipped, spine toned), rear inner hinge partially cracked with possible attempted repair
Footnote
First published in 1894; this edition published as volume 14 in The Wessex Novels.
