Thomas Hardy – Under The Greenwood Tree – First Folio Edition 1989
£30.00
A first Folio Society edition, first printing of Under The Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy, published by The Folio Society, London in 1989, with an introduction by Angela Thirlwell, illustrated with wood engravings by Peter Reddick. A very fine book free from internal inscriptions, boards bound in dark green cloth, with gilt titling on a light green cartouche to the spine and gilt debossed corn dolly to the front panel, text blocks are bright and crisp with dark green top-stain, with cartographic endpapers. In a light green faux leather paper bound slip case.
Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy is a gentle, pastoral novel set in the English countryside. It follows the lives and loves of village characters, especially the romance between Dick Dewy and schoolmistress Fancy Day. Through lyrical prose and rich detail, Hardy portrays rural traditions and the quiet changes brought by modernisation. The novel captures a nostalgic vision of a vanishing way of life, blending humour, warmth and subtle social commentary in a charming, idyllic setting.
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A first Folio Society edition, first printing of Under The Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy, published by The Folio Society, London in 1989, with an introduction by Angela Thirlwell, illustrated with wood engravings by Peter Reddick. A very fine book free from internal inscriptions, boards bound in dark green cloth, with gilt titling on a light green cartouche to the spine and gilt debossed corn dolly to the front panel, text blocks are bright and crisp with dark green top-stain, with cartographic endpapers. In a light green faux leather paper bound slip case.
Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy is a gentle, pastoral novel set in the English countryside. It follows the lives and loves of village characters, especially the romance between Dick Dewy and schoolmistress Fancy Day. Through lyrical prose and rich detail, Hardy portrays rural traditions and the quiet changes brought by modernisation. The novel captures a nostalgic vision of a vanishing way of life, blending humour, warmth and subtle social commentary in a charming, idyllic setting.
