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8vo., First Edition thus, with engraved frontispiece, 40 engravings (a number full-page) and large folding map; elegantly bound in full dark green crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt edges, gilt doublures, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, in custom-made marbled slip-case, an elegant copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. navy buckram, gilt back, bevelled boards, gilt top, covers very lightly age-soiled. backstrip sunned (but all gilt wholly legible) else a very good, bright, clean copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 1500 COPIES. Printed from the plates of Macmillan's definitive Wessex Edition and so including both the expanded Preface of 1912 and the episode of the dance at the hay-trusser's (pp.76-79) present there for the first time. See Purdy p.77.