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Hardy, Thomas.
Tess of the D'Urbervilles A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented by Thomas Hardy.
Publisher: James R. Osgood McIlvaine and Co., London;
Date of Publication: 1892
Stock Code: 15301
The first edition in one volume (i.e. the stated fifth edition), published one year after the first. Octavo, pp., xii, 519, [1], plus author portrait frontispiece. Publisher’s original tan cloth; titled in black to spine; blocked in gilt with honeysuckle and rule design to upper board; white end-papers. Former ownership inscription in ink to front free end-paper. Soiling to cloth; corners bumped and rubbed; a few nicks to head of spine. Occasional spots and small areas of soiling to contents with toning commensurate with age. A serviceable copy. A solid copy, in the first single volume edition, of one of the great Victorian novels. £85.00