Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Other authors / contributors: | Surtees, Anthony Conyers, former owner.
Connors, Robert S., former owner.
Connors, Robert S., former owner.
James R. Osgood, McIlvaine & Co., publisher.
R. & R. Clark (Firm), printer.
Robert S. Connors Basic Program Collection.
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| Provenance: | Former owner's bookplate: Anthony Conyers Surtees.
Binding variant 1: Smooth white-brown flecked cloth; front blocked in gold with 6 panels, one filled with 3 conventionalized flowers, back plain; spine blocked in gold with bands and ornaments and lettered in brown.
Binding variant 2: White-brown diagonal-fine-ribbed cloth, strongly flecked with brown; blocked and lettered exactly as variant 1 but in brown throughout.
Binding: green morocco half binding with green cloth, marbled endpapers; bindery signature: Bound by Zaehnsdorf.
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| Notes: | First edition; the 10 stories collected here had all been published previously in serial form. See Purdy.
Imprint from title page verso; place of publication follows publisher.
Printer statement from colophon; place of printing follows printer.
Signatures: [A]⁴ B-S⁸.
Publisher's device on title page.
Purdy, R.L. Thomas Hardy, pages 61-62
Webb, A.P. Bibliography of the works of Thomas Hardy, 1865-1915, pages 27-28
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| Summary: | Ten gentlemen of the Wessex Field and Antiquarian Club gather to tell the love stories of ten ladies of rank.
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| Other form: | Online version: Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928. Group of noble dames. [London] J.R. Osgood, McIlvaine [1891]
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