HARDY (Thomas) Moments of Love: Poems to Emma, no. 112 of a limited edition of 157 facsimile
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HARDY (Thomas) Moments of Love: Poems to Emma, no. 112 of a limited edition of 157 facsimile copies of Hardy’s love poems to his wife Emma, 1st edition, published by the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, Dorset, 1997, containing a tipped-in sheet signed by Hardy, leather backed green cloth, all edges gilt, gilt lettered spine, in original slipcase.In the early 1990s a group of 157 sheets signed by Hardy were discovered in the Dorchester Museum which the author had intended to incorporate into a deluxe edition of his works prior to his death in 1928. The signed sheets were bound into Moments of Love, a handsome production of his poems presented in manuscript facsimile and, on the opposing pages, in print
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HARDY (Thomas) Moments of Love: Poems to Emma, no. 112 of a limited edition of 157 facsimile copies of Hardy’s love poems to his wife Emma, 1st edition, published by the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, Dorset, 1997, containing a tipped-in sheet signed by Hardy, leather backed green cloth, all edges gilt, gilt lettered spine, in original slipcase.In the early 1990s a group of 157 sheets signed by Hardy were discovered in the Dorchester Museum which the author had intended to incorporate into a deluxe edition of his works prior to his death in 1928. The signed sheets were bound into Moments of Love, a handsome production of his poems presented in manuscript facsimile and, on the opposing pages, in print