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HARDY, Thomas (1840–1928). The Works of… London: Macmillan and Co., 1919–1920. 37 volumes, 8vo. Titles printed in red and black, engraved portrait frontispiece by William Strang in Volume I with tissue guard. Original publisher’s blue cloth, upper covers stamped with gilt roundel, spines titled and decorated in gilt, uncut and unopened; original printed dust jackets (light chipping at ends or corners professionally and discreetly mended with rice paper along upper and lower edges, Volume II jacket with small void to spine panel supplied in facsimile). Provenance: bookseller’s ticket of Henry Sotheran. LIMITED EDITION, one of 500 copies from the “Mellstock Edition” SIGNED BY THOMAS HARDY on limitation leaf. A fresh set in the SCARCE ORIGINAL JACKETS.