originally published:
(London) : Osgood, McIlvaine
1895
We offered this first issue copy of the first edition in our Catalog 129.
reference info
bio notes:
born: 6/2/1840 died: 1/11/1928 born as: Thomas Hardy
nationality: Great Britain
English poet and his nation's foremost regional novelist, whose most impressive novels are set in "Wessex," an imaginary county in southwest England that were based on the actual county of Dorset. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature