HARDY, THOMAS: THE DYNASTS
London, Macmillan & Co., 1910
First one volume edition. PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR to Sir Frederick Treves, Bt. on New Year’s Eve 1910, a month after publication. 8vo., original green cloth, an exceptionally bright copy in a quarter morocco drop-back box.
*Sir Frederick Treves (1853-1923) was a respected surgeon from Dorset who had attended the school kept by William Barnes, the Dorset dialect poet. He published Highways and Byways in Dorset in 1906 and several other works
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£2,500 - £4,000
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Hammer price:
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£2,600 |
Bidding ended. Lot has been sold.
but is best known as
the doctor who cared for John Merrick, ‘The Elephant Man’.
Provenance: Booklabel
of Frederick B. Adams, director of the Pierpont Morgan Libary – sold in the
sale of his library, Sotheby’s 7/11/01.
Reference: Purdy,
p.134
