[Rarebooks] FS: THE DYNASTS, 1/525 SIGNED by Thomas Hardy and the artist Francis Dodd

[Charles Agvent]

HARDY, Thomas. THE DYNASTS. AN EPIC-DRAMA OF THE WAR WITH NAPOLEON, IN 
THREE PARTS, NINETEEN ACTS, AND ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY SCENES. THE TIME 
COVERED BY THE ACTION BEING ABOUT TEN YEARS. London: Macmillan and Co., 
Limited, 1927. First Edition. Three quarto volumes in original 
vellum-backed batik boards in the uncommon printed dustwrappers. Printed 
in red and black on hand-made paper by the Chiswick Press. First 
published twenty years previously this is the First Limited Edition and 
is one of 525 sets SIGNED by the author. Illustrated with an etched 
frontispiece portrait of the author by Francis Dodd SIGNED by the artist 
in pencil. Fine set, bright in just about Fine printed dustwrappers, 
lacking the slipcase. 		$950.00

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