BARNES, WILLIAM - THREE DORSET VOLUMES
comprising ‘Early England and the Saxon-English’ and two copies of ‘Poems of Rural Life’, published 1869, 1879 and 1905 respectively, all cloth bound, together with two other Dorset related volumes - Hardy, Thomas - ‘Life’s Little Ironies’ published Harper & Brothers New York 1904 and Moule, H.J. - ‘Old Dorset’ (5)
Bidding ended. Lot is unsold.
Note: The 1879 edition of 'Poems of Rural Life' bears an inscription from 'H O Lock'. The edition of 'Old Dorset' was gifted to the vendors grandfather, Arthur H. Lock, by his brother Walter Lock, who was warden of Keble College, Oxford. Both Lock's attended William Barnes School in Dorchester and were friends with Thomas Hardy. Arthur became Hardy's lawyer at Lock, Reed and Lock solicitors, and was referred to by Hardy as 'Lawyer Lock!'.
