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1887. London: Macmillan and Co., 1887. 8vo.; 3 vols; original forest-green buckram-grain publisher's cloth with rounded corner frame in black to upper cover, and in blind to lower; lettering gilt to spine; brown coated endpapers; pp. [v], 2-302, [ii, ads.]; [v], 2-328; [v], 2-316; untrimmed, some corner creases and the odd corner roughly opened (not affecting text); internally for the most part clean, a few small stains to page extremities, small tears and creases to lower margin of M4 in vol.1 and Q1 in vol. 2; W. H. Smith subscription stickers to front paste-downs of all three volumes (partially removed in Vol. I), all three volumes with slight shelf lean, the hinges a little weak; bumping to corners exposing a little of the boards; and with pushing to head and foot of spine, where the cloth is a little worn and nicked; Vol I missing a little part of the head-cap; very good copies nonetheless, and unusual in the original cloth. First edition in book form, One of 1000 copies. The…

The Woodlanders is a novel by Thomas Hardy. It was published in 1887. The story is set in a small village in rural England, where the lives and loves of its inhabitants are closely interconnected. The novel explores themes of social change, rural life, and unrequited love.