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A Group of Noble Dames
by Thomas Hardy
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Very Good
- Seller
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Northampton, Northamptonshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
UK: Osgood Mcilvaine, 1896. First Edition Thus . Cloth. Near Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. H Macbeth-Raeburn. 1st Edition Thus 1896. Stamped 'The Hive Sturminster Newton'. The village was a setting for many Hardy's novels. 1st printing in the new edition by Osgood of the Works of Thomas Hardy and complete in it's own right. Etching by H Macbeth-Raeburn, with tissue guard to title page and a map of Wessex. With a new preface written by the author for this edition. Book is very good++ and very bright. Contents good. A nice example. More images can be taken upon request. Ref 17352
Synopsis
From the book:The pedigrees of our county families, arranged in diagrams on the pages of county histories, mostly appear at first sight to be as barren of any touch of nature as a table of logarithms. But given a clue - the faintest tradition of what went on behind the scenes, nd this dryness as of dust may be transformed into a palpitating drama. More, the careful comparison of dates alone - that of birth with marriage, of marriage with death, of one marriage, birth, or death with a kindred marriage, birth, or death - will often effect the same transformation, and anybody practised in raising images from such genealogies finds himself unconsciously filling into the framework the motives, passions, and personal qualities which would appear to be the single explanation possible of some extraordinary conjunction in times, events, and personages that occasionally marks these reticent family records. Out of such pedigrees and supplementary material most of the following stories have arisen and taken shape. I would make this preface an opportunity of expressing my sense of the courtesy and kindness of several bright-eyed Noble Dames yet in the flesh, who, since the first publication of these tales in periodicals, six or seven years ago, have given me interesting comments and conjectures on such of...
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lasting Words Ltd
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 025466
- Title
- A Group of Noble Dames
- Author
- Thomas Hardy
- Illustrator
- H Macbeth-Raeburn
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition Thus
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Osgood Mcilvaine
- Place of Publication
- UK
- Date Published
- 1896
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- 17352
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Lasting Words Ltd
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Northampton, Northamptonshire
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