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First edition. Octavo. pp xii, 228. Thirty black-and-white illustrations by the author, some full-page and including a tissue-guarded frontispiece. Original gilt decorated green cloth. The author's first collection, containing fifty-one poems. Only 500 copies were printed. Short introduction by the author.Spotting to edges, endpapers and the tissue guard of the frontispiece. Corners of front cover a bit bumped. A very good indeed, bright copy.

Wessex Poems and Other Verses is a collection of poems by English poet and author Thomas Hardy. It was Hardy’s first published volume of verse and was published in 1898. The collection combines some of Hardy's earlier verse with later poems and is notable for its exploration of themes such as nature, love, and the human condition.