A Pure Woman
IN THE RARE DUSTWRAPPER
Tess of the d'urbervilles A Pure Woman
Macmillan, 1926.
First illustrated edition, limited to 325 copies on large handmade paper, signed by Hardy. Original publisher's quarter vellum over marbled boards, with the rare buff dustwrapper, printed in navy. Forty-one wood engraved plates by Vivien Gribble. Fold-out map of Wessex to the rear. A near fine copy, with some very slight foxing to the endpapers and page edges only, in a very good dustwrapper which shows some wear to the head of the spine with a small chip to the upper corner and some spotting to the spine and light scuffing to the rear panel.
A beautifully bound, printed and illustrated edition of Hardy's great novel, issued two years after its stage debut.
"Tess is the most eloquently written of the novels, and the one in which the natural world and the topography itself—the landscapes Tess so doggedly traverses—are most continuously and richly represented" (Michael Millgate, ODNB).
Stock ID: 46558
£4,500.00
