HARDY, THOMAS THE WORKS The "Mellstock Edition", one of 500 ...

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HARDY, THOMAS THE WORKS
The "Mellstock Edition", one of 500 sets printed, MacMillan & Co., London, 1919-1920, thirty-seven volumes (one with cover badly water damaged), the first (Tess of the D'Urbervilles) being signed by Hardy, with an engraved frontispiece portrait of the author by William Strang, bound in gilt dark blue cloth, with monogrammed upper covers, 8vo, armorial bookplate of Sir Alexander Kay Muir Bart. (37)

Sir Alexander Kay Muir, 2nd Baronet (1868-1951), son of Sir John Muir, Scottish industrialist, founder of Finlay Muir & Co. and Lord Provost of Glasgow 1889-1892. Succeeding as second Baronet in 1903, Alexander Kay Muir held the offices of Justice of the Peace for Glasgow and Perthshire, and High Sherriff of County Waterford.

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