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First Edition, Sextodecimo, 3 volumes, Sextodecimo, _ leather over green, blue, gilt, and white marbled boards, gilt stamped lettering and design on spine, five raised bands on spine, gilt top edge. One of only 1000 copies, half-title present in each volume, no ads, part of English novelist and poet Thomas Hardy's Wessex novel series. Very good, leather at spine is very worn, previous owners bookplate on front pastedown of each edition, some shelf wear.

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.