Thomas Hardy - The Return of the Native - 1878 UK 3 vol 1st - Zaehnsdorf binding

Description: Thomas Hardy - The Return of the Native - 1878 First edition published by Smith, Elder, & Co. First edition. 3 volumes, 303, 297 and 320 pages respectively + frontispiece map to vol 1. In late-Victorian Zaehnsdorf green half-calf bindings, with patterned green paper covered boards, gilt to the top edges of the text blocks and marbled endpapers front and rear. All three volumes retain their half-titles. The books are reasonably firmly bound, the leather is quite worn, rubbed and scuffed and the boards are slightly rubbed with some minor chipping to the paper, the hinges are a little tender. The text blocks are age toned, slightly marked and somewhat foxed. One of Hardy's great novels, expertly weaving controversial themes of adultery and desire with a traditional rural setting, itself a protest against the increasing tendency towards urbanisation that followed in the wake of industrialisation and the expansion of the railways. This is a not displeasing first edition set in fairly contemporary bindings.

Price: 1000 GBP

Location: Liverpool

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Binding: Leather

Language: English

Fiction Subject: Classic Literature

Special Attributes: 1st Edition

Author: Thomas Hardy

Printing Year: 1878

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Year Printed: 1878