A Group of Noble Dames
by Thomas Hardy
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- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
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Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
E-198. Very Good. Hardcover. Leather. 8vo. Published by James R. Osgood, McIlvaine & Co, London, UK. 1891. Vi, 271 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. Bound in 3/4 tan calf and marbled paper. Raised bands to spine with gilt decoration and lettering to spine labels. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The book contains a collection of short stories concerning a noble dame in the 17th or 18th century. Includes: The First Countess of Wessex, Barbara of the House of Grebe, The Marchioness of Stonehenge, Lady Mottisfont, The Lady Icenway, Squire, Petrick's Lady, Anna Lady Baxby, The Lady Penelope, The Duchess of Hamptonshire and The Honourable Laura. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
Synopsis
From the book:The pedigrees of our county families, arranged in diagrams on the pages of county histories, mostly appear at first sight to be as barren of any touch of nature as a table of logarithms. But given a clue - the faintest tradition of what went on behind the scenes, nd this dryness as of dust may be transformed into a palpitating drama. More, the careful comparison of dates alone - that of birth with marriage, of marriage with death, of one marriage, birth, or death with a kindred marriage, birth, or death - will often effect the same transformation, and anybody practised in raising images from such genealogies finds himself unconsciously filling into the framework the motives, passions, and personal qualities which would appear to be the single explanation possible of some extraordinary conjunction in times, events, and personages that occasionally marks these reticent family records. Out of such pedigrees and supplementary material most of the following stories have arisen and taken shape. I would make this preface an opportunity of expressing my sense of the courtesy and kindness of several bright-eyed Noble Dames yet in the flesh, who, since the first publication of these tales in periodicals, six or seven years ago, have given me interesting comments and conjectures on such of...
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- Last Exit Books
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- 60955
- Title
- A Group of Noble Dames
- Author
- Thomas Hardy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Place of Publication
- E-198
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