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Fine and bound in genuine leather. Book accented in 22kt gold. Condition: Like New. The second page has an ex libris (label) from the publisher with owner's signature on the label (image 6). This book is printed on archival quality paper especially milled for this collector’s edition with gilded edges. The end sheets are of moire fabric with a silk ribbon page marker. Smyth sewing and concealed muslin joints to ensure the highest quality binding. This book is in full leather with hubbed spines. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Way of All Flesh, as edited and completed by R. A Streatfield was published posthumously in London in 1903 by Jonathan Cape, Ltd. It was included in the twenty-volume Shrewsbury Edition of Butler's works, edited by Henry Festing Jones and A. T. Bartholomew, published 1923-26 by Jonathan Cape \u0026amp; E. P. Dutton, London and New York. 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Book accented in 22kt gold. Condition: Mint. Like New. The second page has an ex libris (label) from the publisher with owner's signature on the label (image 6). This book is printed on archival quality paper especially milled for this collector’s edition with gilded edges made to last well into future generations. The end sheets are of moire fabric with a silk ribbon page marker. Smyth sewing and concealed muslin joints to ensure the highest quality binding. This book is in full leather with hubbed spines.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJude the Obscure first appeared serially in Harper's New Monthly Magazine in 1894-95 under two successive provisional titles: The Simpletons and Hearts Insurgent; this was an abridged and modified version of the original manuscript. In 1895 the complete novel, with the Author's Pref-ace, came out in the seventeen-volume Uniform Edition of the works of Thomas Hardy, published by Osgood, McIlvaine \u0026amp; Co. in London and by Harper \u0026amp; Bros. in New York. For the definitive Wessex Edition of the novels, issued in 1912, Hardy made some minor corrections in Jude the Obscure and added a Postscript to the original Preface. The first edition containing the Agnes Miller Parker engravings was issued by The Limited Editions Club (copy-right © 1969).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis Collector's Edition was published by advance reservation exclusively for subscribers to the Easton Press collection of The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written. 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Fine and genuine leather bound. Book accented in 22kt gold. The second page has an ex libris (label) with owner's signature (image 6). This book was printed on archival quality paper especially milled for this collector’s edition with gilt edges made to last well into future generations. The end sheets are of moire fabric with a silk ribbon page marker. Smyth sewing and concealed muslin joints to ensure the high quality binding. The book is in full leather with hubbed spines.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Heart of Darkness\u003c\/em\u003e, was originally published as a serial: in Great Britain in Blackwood's Magazine from February to April, 1899, and in the United States in Living Age from June 16 to August 4, 1900. It was first published in book form in Conrad's Youth and Two Other Stories (William Blackwood \u0026amp; Sons, Edinburgh and London, 1902), and reappeared in the Uniform Edition of his collected works published by J. M. 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Fine and genuine leather bound. Book accented in 22kt gold. Like New, but with mild scratch on gilt fore edge (image 2). The second page has an ex libris (label) from the publisher with owner's signature on the label (image 6). This book is printed on archival quality paper especially milled for this collector’s edition with gilded edges made to last well into future generations. The end sheets are of moire fabric with a silk ribbon page marker. Smyth sewing and concealed muslin joints to ensure the highest quality binding. 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The end sheets are of moire fabric with a silk ribbon page marker. Smyth sewing and concealed muslin joints to ensure the highest quality binding. This book is in full leather with hubbed spines. Beautiful, well made and designed book, written by one of the greats – Henry Fielding.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"His designs were strictly honourable, as the phrase is; that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage\". Ribald and rollicking, Tom Jones is Fielding's comic classic of a young man's coming-of-age. While recognized today as a landmark of the English novel, Dr. Johnson once observed, \"I am sorry to hear you have read it; a confession which no modest lady should ever make.\"Tom Jones:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe History of a Foundling was originally published in 1749 in six volumes and revised by the author for a four-volume edition issued the same year. (Between 1749 and 1787 it appeared in translation in seven European countries; in 1872 it was translated into Czech, and in 1959 into Finnish.) Tom Jones was included in the first edition of Fielding's collected Works in 1762, inaccurately edited by Arthur Murphy, and reprinted three times by 1783. A complete edition of the novels, edited by Sir Walter Scott, was published in 1821. The ten-volume Shakespeare Head edition of Fielding was issued by Oxford University Press in 1926. An edition of Tom Jones illustrated by Rowlandson came out in Edinburgh in 1805, and a London edition illustrated by Cruikshank in 1831. George Saintsbury edited it for Everyman's Library in 1909.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1974 a two-volume edition was prepared by Fredson Bowers for the Wesleyan Edition of Fielding's complete writings (Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, Conn.). The edition containing T.M. 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