HUDSON, W. H. Afoot in England. London: Hutchinson 1909. 8vo, original green cloth, rubbed and a bit soiled, green morocco slipcase. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY TO EDWARD GARNETT, inscribed by the author on front free endpaper: "Edward Garnett from W.H. Hudson, July 6, 1909"; with Garnett's bookplate below inscription. Payne A27a. For the close friendship and literary association of Hudson and Edward Garnett, see in particular the chapter on Hudson in David Garnett's Great Friends (London, 1979), pp. 24-33. "When [the publishers] Dent asked [Joseph] Conrad for an 'authoritative' paper on Hudson [after his death in 1922], he referred them to Edward [Garnett] as 'the person eminently fitted to write an authoritative article.' He was, Conrad said, 'Hudson's friend for more than twenty years, one of his earliest appreciators long before the public, or for that matter the publishers, recognised the high quality of Hudson's work which he did his utmost to make known to the world...'"--George Jefferson, Edward Garnett: A Life in Literature (London, 1982), p. 261.

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HUDSON, W. H. Afoot in England. London: Hutchinson 1909. 8vo, original green cloth, rubbed and a bit soiled, green morocco slipcase. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY TO EDWARD GARNETT, inscribed by the author on front free endpaper: "Edward Garnett from W.H. Hudson, July 6, 1909"; with Garnett's bookplate below inscription. Payne A27a. For the close friendship and literary association of Hudson and Edward Garnett, see in particular the chapter on Hudson in David Garnett's Great Friends (London, 1979), pp. 24-33. "When [the publishers] Dent asked [Joseph] Conrad for an 'authoritative' paper on Hudson [after his death in 1922], he referred them to Edward [Garnett] as 'the person eminently fitted to write an authoritative article.' He was, Conrad said, 'Hudson's friend for more than twenty years, one of his earliest appreciators long before the public, or for that matter the publishers, recognised the high quality of Hudson's work which he did his utmost to make known to the world...'"--George Jefferson, Edward Garnett: A Life in Literature (London, 1982), p. 261.