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SELECTED POEMS. 1916
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Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
Selected Poems. 1916
HARDY, Thomas (1840-1928). Selected Poems. London: Macmillan and Co., 1916.
First edition, with a note by Hardy pasted to verso of half-title: ‘In aid of our wounded soldiers this book is signed. Thomas Hardy’. ‘Selected Poems is a collection of 120 poems drawn from The Dynasts and the four volumes of poetry Hardy had published up to 1916 and including, a fact that lends the book particular importance, nine poems from the unpublished MS. of Moments of Vision’ (Purdy, p.187). This copy bears a gift inscription from Anne Isabella Ritchie, novelist and daughter of William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863), to Eleanor Cecil, wife of Lord Robert Cecil (1864-1958), with both ladies’ respective bookplates. Purdy pp.178-188.
Octavo (159 x 105mm). Half-title, portrait bust of the author on title (a few spots to edges). Publisher’s blue cloth, gilt monogram of the Golden Treasury Series on upper cover, spine lettered in gilt (spine somewhat faded, lightly rubbed at spine ends); housed in modern slipcase. Provenance: Anne Isabella, Lady Ritchie, née Thackeray (writer, 1837-1919; bookplate, gift inscription to) – Lady Eleanor Lampton (1868-1959; bookplate).
Selected Poems. 1916
HARDY, Thomas (1840-1928). Selected Poems. London: Macmillan and Co., 1916.
First edition, with a note by Hardy pasted to verso of half-title: ‘In aid of our wounded soldiers this book is signed. Thomas Hardy’. ‘Selected Poems is a collection of 120 poems drawn from The Dynasts and the four volumes of poetry Hardy had published up to 1916 and including, a fact that lends the book particular importance, nine poems from the unpublished MS. of Moments of Vision’ (Purdy, p.187). This copy bears a gift inscription from Anne Isabella Ritchie, novelist and daughter of William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863), to Eleanor Cecil, wife of Lord Robert Cecil (1864-1958), with both ladies’ respective bookplates. Purdy pp.178-188.
Octavo (159 x 105mm). Half-title, portrait bust of the author on title (a few spots to edges). Publisher’s blue cloth, gilt monogram of the Golden Treasury Series on upper cover, spine lettered in gilt (spine somewhat faded, lightly rubbed at spine ends); housed in modern slipcase. Provenance: Anne Isabella, Lady Ritchie, née Thackeray (writer, 1837-1919; bookplate, gift inscription to) – Lady Eleanor Lampton (1868-1959; bookplate).
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