Hardy (Thomas). A Pair of Blue Eyes, 1895; Tess of the D'Urbervilles, 1895; The Trumpet-Major, 1896; The Woodlanders, 1896; Jude the Obscure, 1896, London: Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., half-titles present, etched frontispiece to each, endpapers spotted, some splitting to hinges, top edges gilt, remainder rough-trimmed, uniform original gilt decorated dark green cloth, some marks and one or two creas rexes, spines variously torn and frayed at ends (Woodlanders with small piece missing at head), some corners showing, 8vo (Qty: 5) Each volume inscribed by the author to Susan, Countess of Malmesbury, and signed variously 'Thomas Hardy' or 'T.H.' (two inscriptions, those to Jude and Tess, dated November 1895 and February 1896 respectively). Provenance: Bequeathed by Susan, Countess of Malmesbury to her niece Barbara, and thence by descent. Susan Harris (née Hamilton), Countess of Malmesbury (1854-1935), married Victorian statesman James Howard Harris, 3rd Earl of Malmesbury (1807-1889) in 1880. She later, in 1896, married British army officer Major-General Sir John Charles Ardagh (1840-1907). The Countess was a fellow writer, friend and correspondent of Thomas Hardy The two saw a great deal of each other, particularly during the period between her marriages, when these books were inscribed. Hardy's marriage to Emma Gifford had become increasingly troubled, and it is telling that it was Susan with whom Hardy dined on his birthday in 1892, not his wife. Hardy's second wife, Florence, in her biography of her husband, relates an anecdote of April 1894: "At Lady Malmesbury's one of her green linnets escaped from its cage, and he [Hardy] caught it - reluctantly, but feeling that a green linnet at large in London would be in a worse predicament than as a prisoner."
Hardy (Thomas). A Pair of Blue Eyes, 1895; Tess of the D'Urbervilles, 1895; The Trumpet-Major, 1896; The Woodlanders, 1896; Jude the Obscure, 1896, London: Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., half-titles present, etched frontispiece to each, endpapers spotted, some splitting to hinges, top edges gilt, remainder rough-trimmed, uniform original gilt decorated dark green cloth, some marks and one or two creas rexes, spines variously torn and frayed at ends (Woodlanders with small piece missing at head), some corners showing, 8vo (Qty: 5) Each volume inscribed by the author to Susan, Countess of Malmesbury, and signed variously 'Thomas Hardy' or 'T.H.' (two inscriptions, those to Jude and Tess, dated November 1895 and February 1896 respectively). Provenance: Bequeathed by Susan, Countess of Malmesbury to her niece Barbara, and thence by descent. Susan Harris (née Hamilton), Countess of Malmesbury (1854-1935), married Victorian statesman James Howard Harris, 3rd Earl of Malmesbury (1807-1889) in 1880. She later, in 1896, married British army officer Major-General Sir John Charles Ardagh (1840-1907). The Countess was a fellow writer, friend and correspondent of Thomas Hardy The two saw a great deal of each other, particularly during the period between her marriages, when these books were inscribed. Hardy's marriage to Emma Gifford had become increasingly troubled, and it is telling that it was Susan with whom Hardy dined on his birthday in 1892, not his wife. Hardy's second wife, Florence, in her biography of her husband, relates an anecdote of April 1894: "At Lady Malmesbury's one of her green linnets escaped from its cage, and he [Hardy] caught it - reluctantly, but feeling that a green linnet at large in London would be in a worse predicament than as a prisoner."
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