Tess of the D'Urbervilles : a pure woman
Thomas Hardy (Author), Robert S. Connors (Former owner), Charles S. Ricketts (Cover designer), James R. Osgood, McIlvaine & Co (Publisher), R. & R. Clark (Firm) (Printer), Robert S. Connors Basic Program Collection
The story of a simple but beautiful country girl's seduction by another man, which causes her husband to leave her on their wedding night, and thereby precipitates a course of events that ends in murder
Print Book, English, 1891
James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., London, 1891
Fiction
3 volumes ; 20 cm
13623666
v. 1. Phase the First : The maiden, I-XI. Phase the Second : Maiden no more, XII-XV. Phase the Third : The rally, XVI-XX
v. 2. Phase the Third : The rally (continued), XXI-XXIV. Phase the Fourth : The consequence, XXV-XXXIV. Phase the Fifth : The woman pays, XXXV-XXIX
Phase the Fifth : The woman pays (continued), XL-XLIV. Phase the Sixth : The convert, XLV-LII. Phase the Seventh : Fulfilment, LIII-LIX
Imprint from title page verso
First edition, first issue (original state); first appeared serially in the Graphic from July 4 to December 26, 1891. See Purdy
Signatures: v. 1: [A]⁴, B-R⁸, S⁴; v. 2: [A]⁴, B-S⁸, T⁴; v. 3: [A]⁴, B-S⁸, T⁴ (octavo)
Cover design by Charles Ricketts