The Well-Beloved.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1897.
Price: $300.00
About the item
First American edition. Etched frontispiece with tissue guard by H. Macbeth-Raeburn and map of Wessex at end. 8vo. Bound in forest green half morocco backed marble boards with gilt ruling, gilt titles on five-banded spine, and t.e.g. Marble endpapers with handsome bookplate of heiress Gustavia Senff on upper pastedowns; lightly bumped lower corner but otherwise a near fine copy. Purdy pp 92-96.
Item #365076
Hardy's last novel to be published in book form, it appeared serially in the Illustrated London News at the end of 1892.
