Hardy (Thomas)

The Wessex Novels, 19 volumes, lacking the final volume (Poems of the Past and Present), including 4 First Editions, Jude the Obscure featuring an extensive note to the front pastedown by poet and literary critic Lascelles Abercrombie, varying levels of spotting and occasional staining, occasional ownership inscriptions and bookplates, original gilt-stamped cloth, Desperate Remedies with some loss to head of spine and some loose quires, v.p., 1895-1913; with 3 duplicates and 3 copies of ‘Late Lyrics and Earlier’ (25)

*** A member of the ‘Dymock Poets’, Lascelles Abercrombie’s note reads: “Tess & Jude [...] If man has his intellect, which enables him so to conceive the manner of his existence, he also has his sense of justice; & it enables him, rather compels him, to see this existence of his as a harsh & senseless violation of his profoundest belief - the belief that his sense of justice ought to be satisfied. Such, in brief, is the burden of these two books’ significance.”