Complete run of the first appearance in book form. Comprising: Desperate Remedies, 1871, 3 vols, small chip to edge of p. 39 of vol. I, small chip to bottom inner corner of title-page in vol. III; Under the Greenwood Tree, 1872, 2 vols; A Pair of Blue Eyes, 1873, 3 vols, small chip to edge of p. 95 of vol. III; Far From the Madding Crowd, 1874, 2 vols; The Hand of Ethelberta, 1876, 2 vols, closed tear to upper margin of p. 213 in vol. III; The Return of the Native, 1878, 3 vols; The Trumpet Major, 1880, 3 vols; A Laodicean, 1881, 3 vols; Two on a Tower, 1882, 3 vols; The Mayor of Casterbridge, 1886, 2 vols; The Woodlanders, 1887, 3 vols; Wessex Tales, 1888, 2 vols; Three Notable Stories, 1 vol., 1890; Tess of the D'Urbervilles, 1891, 3 vols; A Group of Noble Dames, 1891, 1 vol, cut corner to bottom of p. 122, not affecting text; Life's Little Ironies, 1894 1 vol; Jude the Obscure, 1896, 1 vol; The Well-Beloved, 1897, 1 vol; Wessex Poems, 1895, 1 vol; Poems of the Past and the Present, 1902. 1 vol; The Dynasts, 1904, 1906 & 1908, 3 vols; Time's Laughing Stocks, 1909, 1 vol; A Changed Man, 1913, 1 vol; Satires of Circumstance, 1914, 1 vol; Selected Poems, 1916, 1 vol; Moments of Wisdom, 1917, 1 vol; Late Lyrics and Earlier, 1922, 1 vol; The Famous Tragedy of the Queen of Cornwall, 1923, 1 vol; Human Shows Far Fantasies, 1925, 1 vol; Winter Words, 1928, 1 vol; half titles present unless stated,

A run of very attractively bound first editions by the great Victorian writer Thomas Hardy, including each of Hardy's most celebrated novels and the Wessex Tales and the Poems.

First editions in book form; 30 works in 53 vols, 8vo (various); toned, the occasional random spot or soiling, mostly marginal toning, occasionally full-page toning, a few random chips or rough cuts to edges; uniformly bound in 20th century full black morocco by Bayntun-Riviere, Bath, single gilt panelled, spine gilt in compartments, gilt dentelles, cockerel endpapers and top edges gilt, the bindings in fine condition.