Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy — 1st Osgood Edition

£295.00

Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy — 1st Osgood Edition

Name: Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy — 1st Osgood Edition
Brand: Broadhursts Books
SKU: 3145 SD
Price: 295.00 GBP
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Condition

Fine: Publisher’s original cloth binding shows light bumping to the corners and edges, together with small splits at the spine tail and faint marks across the boards. Excellent overall externally, with gilt decoration and lettering remaining crisp, bright, and well-defined. Binding now protected in a plastic sleeve. Text block remains in notably well-preserved condition, retaining its deckled edges. Small foxing spots to the pastedown, though pages throughout remain clean and tidy. Binding tight and secure. Frontispiece and rear map immaculate.

Description

Scarce Osgood edition of Thomas Hardy’s Far From the Madding Crowd, published by Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., London. This edition includes a new preface supplied by Hardy, a frontispiece by Macbeth-Raeburn, and the desirable map of Wessex at the rear. Copies of this issue are exceptionally scarce, particularly in such well-preserved original condition.

One of Hardy’s most celebrated Wessex novels, Far From the Madding Crowd blends rural realism, romance, tragedy, and psychological observation in its portrayal of Bathsheba Everdene and the intertwined lives of those surrounding her in the fictional pastoral landscape of Wessex.

Book Condition: Fine

Book Authors: Thomas Hardy

Book Publisher: Osgood, McIlvaine and Co.

Book Language: English

Narrative Type: Fiction

Genre: Classic Fiction

Book edition: First Edition

Signed: No

Book Pages: 482

Book Publication Year: 1895

Book Publication Date:

Book Binding: Cloth

Illustrator: Macbeth-Raeburn

Book Series:

Country/region of manufacture: London, United Kingdom

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