Presentation Copy to Thomas Hardy
Ballads of Old Birmingham.
Birmingham: E.F. Hudson, 1911.
Price: $1,250.00
About the item
First edition. Illustrations by A. Rodway. 8vo. Blue buckram binding, gilt stamped cover and spine. Some rubbing to boards, offsetting to endpapers, Thomas Hardy's Max Gate bookplate. Provenance: Maggs Bros. "Thomas Hardy: A Collection of Books from his Library at Max Gate, Dorchester," 1938, item 174.
Item #370228
With an ALS from Rudland to Hardy laid-in, gifting him this book ("May I be allowed although the least of all those that sing, to ask of a great master, the acceptance of this little book.").
