Description: Thomas Hardy The Trumpet Major John Loveday Soldier Buonaparte 3 Vols 1880 1st Click image to enlarge Description HARDY, THOMAS: The Trumpet Major. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL CLOTH. Compete 3 VOLUME Set. Smith,Elder & Co.1880 (1st.ed.). 1,000 copies only of this first edition were published on 26 Oct.1880. Bound in the publisher's original and Purdy's primary binding of red cloth, the upper cover lettered and panelled to produce two vignettes from drawings by Hardy all in black, the spines lettered and decorated with sword and trumpet in gilt and black and with the two line ruled borders on the rear covers in blind. In good condition. Volumes have been re-backed preserving the original spines and endpapers. Spines are faded and darkened, with slight loss of cloth. Each volume with bookplate of noted collector Christopher Freville Huntley, and signature of Arthur C. Moore, June 1891. Boards with moderate rubbing, light soil and scuffing. Contents very good, generally clean with age toning and some scattered spotting and smudges. Volume II with an additional pencil signature of A.R. Stevens 1890 on the front pastedown. Small chip to top margin of title page and partial loss of side margin to pp. 59/60 in Volume III. This set appeared at auction at Bonhams, London on 23 November 2010. hf.titles. 295 pp.; 276 pp.; 259 pp. THE FIRST EDITION OF HARDY'S EPIC NOVEL OF THE NAPOLEONIC WAR, A VERY ATTRACTIVE SET IN ORIGINAL CLOTH. Purdy notes the edition was printed in only 1000 copies. The cover illustrations were designed by Hardy and feature two vignettes, one of an encampment on a river which leads down to the second of a mill. 96277 Pictures sell! Auctiva offers Free Image Hosting and Editing.300+ Listing Templates! Auctiva gets you noticed! Attention Sellers - Get Templates Image Hosting, Scheduling at Auctiva.com. Track Page Views WithAuctiva's Counter
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Language: English
Condition: Used
Subject: The Trumpet Major
Binding: Hardback
Author: Thomas Hardy
Year Printed: 1880
Fiction Subject: General & Literary Fiction
Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
Publisher: Smith, Elder & Co
Region: Europe
Weight: 1.3Kg
Character Family: Thomas Hardy
Original/Facsimile: Original
Original/Reproduction: Original
Place of Publication: London
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Limited Edition
