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Macmillan,, 1887. 3 vols., 8vo., First Edition, some very light spotting on half-titles, on advertisement leaf and rear free endpaper of first volume, and on final page of text and rear free endpaper of third volume; original dark-green buckram-grain cloth blocked in black with double frame border enclosing an inner frame border with radial corners, gilt backs, chocolate-brown endpapers, uncut, very neatly rebacked to style with original backstrips (lightly chipped at heads and tails) laid down, a very good, bright, clean copy, housed in a custom-made mid-green cloth slip-case, lettered in gilt and with inner ribbon-pull. ONE OF MACMILLAN'S FEW PRESENTATION COPIES, with neat 'With the Publisher's Compliments' stamp in ink on upper margins of titles. With the advertisement leaf in vol. I as called for. 'The Woodlanders' was published in an edition of 1000 copies on 15 March 1887. Only 860 copies were bound up in this (primary) binding; the remaining copies…

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.