HARDY, THOMAS.

The well-beloved: a sketch of a temperment ... with an etching by H. Macbeth-Raeburn.

London: Osgood, McIlvaine & Co., [1897]. First edition, 8vo, pp. [2], viii, [2], 337, [2]; etched frontispiece, full-p. map of Wessex on last leaf; original green cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine, t.e.g. Two previous owners' signatures on front free endpaper, else very good. First published in the Illustrated London News, October to December 1892, and here republished with "many scattered passages excised or added, chapters retitled ... and an entirely new conclusion substituted." See Purdy, pp. 92-96. Item #28297

Price: $125.00