Hardy (Thomas) [Works], 18 works in 39 vol., an attractive set of near-uniformly bound works

Hardy (Thomas) [Works], 18 works in 39 vol., comprising Desperate Remedies, 3 vol., half-titles, very light spotting and marginal toning, 1871; Under the Greenwood Tree, 2 vol., lacking half-titles, 1873; Far From the Madding Crowd, 2 vol., small repaired tear to frontispiece margin, 1874; Tess of the D'Urbervilles, 3 vol., half-titles, original cloth trimmed and bound in at end, 1891; The Mayor of Casterbridge, 2 vol., 1f. publisher's advertisements at end, original cloth covers and spine trimmed and bound in at end, 1886; The Trumpet-Major, 3 vol., original cloth and spine trimmed and bound in at end, 1880, first editions, uniformly bound in modern burgundy morocco, t.e.g., spine gilt in compartments; and 24 others by Hardy, uniformly or near-uniformly bound, 8vo.*** A run of very attractively-bound first editions by the great Victorian writer Thomas Hardy, including each of Hardy's most celebrated novels and Wessex Tales and Poems.