Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)

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Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)

Oxford Book of English Verse. 1900

[HARDY, Thomas (1840-1928)] – QUILLER-COUCH, Arthur (1863-1944, editor). The Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1900. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1900.



Hardy’s annotated copy of ‘the standard anthology of English verse’ (ODNB). His pencil annotations, occurring on various pages throughout the volume, include the addition of an entire stanza to ‘The Wife of Usher’s Well’ on p.440. In a letter to Florence Henniker dated 24 December 1900, Hardy offers his unfavourable opinion of the work: ‘I was induced by a review to buy Q[uiller-]Couch’s Oxford Book of Verse the other day; and was much disappointed: the selected names are a good and fairly exhaustive list, but specimens chosen show a narrow judgment and a bias in favour of particular views of life which make the book second-rate of its class’.



Octavo (188 x 122mm). Printed overslip pasted to margin of p.232 (some spotting). Original blue cloth gilt, top edge gilt; housed in cloth and patterned paper case. Provenance: Thomas Hardy (pencil annotations, sale Hodgson's, 26 May 1938, lot 221) – Frederick Baldwin Adams Jr. (1910-2001, American bibliophile and director of the Pierpont Morgan Library; bookplate, pencil note to front pastedown, sale Sotheby’s, London, 7 November 2001, lot 502).

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