THOMAS HARDY'S LIBRARY AT MAX GATE: CATALOGUE OF AN ATTEMPTED RECONSTRUCTION Michael Millgate Abbott, Claude Colleer. Miss Bedell and Other Poems. London, 1924. Bookplate; pres. ins. from author. [Maggs Bros. 664/1] Abercrombie, Lascelles. The Epic. London: Martin Secker, n.d. [1914] Bookplate; light marking and v. light annotation. (Taylor, Language, 317; Wreden 11/95) [Texas] ---. Interludes and Poems. London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1908. Bookplate; pres. ins. from J. Lane. (MG Sale/217; Maggs 664/2; Holmes 1989 List/1, 40/156; Reese 122/1) [William Reese 134/459] ---. Thomas Hardy: A Critical Study. London: Martin Secker, 1912. TH signature. Export 287/64 reports another copy (with pres. ins. from Abercrombie to his mother), but MG provenance doubtful. [DCM] About, Edmond. The Man With the Broken Ear. New York: Holt, 1873. TH signature; v. lightly annotated. Trans. by Henry Holt of About's L'Homme à l'oreille cassée, first pub. 1867; this copy, in Holt's 'Leisure Hour' series, presumably a gift to TH from Holt. [Elkin Mathews Folio 3/31] Adams, Ernest. The Elements of the English Language. Revised by J. F. Davis. London: George Bell and Sons, 1892. ('25th edition') Bookplate; annotated inside back cover with examples of split infinitives by Browning, Bagehot, and Byron. (Stonehill ex-cat. 1939) [Samuel Hynes] [Adams, Henry]. Democracy: An American Novel. London: Ward, Lock, n.d. Bookplate. [First Edition Bookshop 33/97] Addison, Joseph. The Free Holder or Political Essays. London, 1744. Bookplate. [David Magee 23/197] 2 ---. The Tatler. 2 vols. London, 1777. Bookplate; title-page of vol. 1 wanting; note, 'possibly in Hardy's handwriting', re purchase of vol. by J. A. Gifford, ELH's father. (Magee 23/194) [David Magee 28/180] ---. The Tatler. With preface, history and biography by A. Chalmers. 5 vols. London, 1817. Bookplate. (MG Sale/269) [David Magee 23/189] ---, and Richard Steele. The Spectator. Vols. 2 and 8 (of 8) only. London and Edinburgh: Printed for J. Gardner et al., 1776. Bookplates. (MG Sale/269, where all 8 vols. listed; vol. 2 Ian Jackson ex-cat.) [Vol. 2 Michael Millgate; Vol. 8 Texas] ---. The Spectator. London, 1847. Bookplate; 'Very early' TH signature. [William P. Wreden 11/4] The Adventurer. 4 vols. London, 1762. Bookplate. (Magee 23/198, where only 3 vols. reported) Ed. John Hawkesworth. Originally published 7 Nov. 1752--9 Mar. 1754. [David Magee 28/173] Aeschylus. The Lyrical Dramas . Translated into English Verse. Trans. John Stuart Blackie. London: J. M. Dent, n.d. [c. 1907?] Bookplate; v. lightly annotated. (Steele, 383; Wreden 11/257) [Michael Millgate] --. The Tragedies of Aeschylus. Ed. F. A. Paley. London: Whittaker and Co. George Bell, 1855. Red SCC bookplate; 2 TH signatures, plus 3 pencilled signatures internally, pp. 97, 159, 315; interestingly marked and annotated (e.g., pp. 98, 302-3, rear pastedown), with inserted cuttings. (Steele, 382; Steele, Companion, 55, 57-8; Rutland, 34, 37-9; Purdy purchase at MG Sale) [Yale: Purdy] ---. The Tragedies of Aeschylus. Trans. [Theodore Alois Buckley]. [London]: [George Bell & Sons, circa 1873-6]. [Title-page missing; Steele identifies as above; Grolier/8 incorrectly identifies as original Henry G. Bohn printing of 1849.] Red SCC bookplate; TH's initials on half-title; extensively annotated. (Life and Work, 256; Literary Notebooks, i. 32, 280; Steele, 382-3; Steele, Companion, 57-8; Rutland, 35-6, 39; Grolier/8; Adams; Sotheby's 6-7 Nov. 2001/372) [R. A. Gekoski 29/278; seen at Adams] Ainsworth, Robert. Ainsworth's Dictionary. See Morell, Thomas 3 Ainsworth, William Harrison. Rookwood. London: Routledge, n.d. Bookplate; Kate Hardy signature, 1886. [First Edition Bookshop 33/96] ---. Windsor Castle. Receipt of illustrated edition acknowledged, May 1913. This novel, first pub. 1843, subsequently appeared in several illustrated editions. [Collected Letters, iv. 272] Airy, Osmond. Text-Book of English History from the Earliest Times for Colleges and Schools. London: Longmans, Green, 1895. ('New Edition') Bookplate; part of prize awarded to FED 'for passing a good examination as a 3rd yr. Pupil Teacher in February 1896'. (Wreden 11/138) [Texas] Alain-Fournier [i.e., Henri-Alban Fournier]. Le Grand Meaulnes. Paris: Emile-Paul, 1913. Bookplate; pres. ins. from author. (Heffer 532/1897; Sotheby's 27 July 1965/508) [H. Bradley Martin Sale, Sotheby's, Monaco, 16 Oct 1989/520] Alden, Edward C. Alden's Oxford Guide. Oxford: Alden, 1892. Lightly marked and annotated, with 'Oct 1st 1892' alongside Christ Church hall. [BL] Alden, Henry M. Magazine Writing and the New Literature. New York, 1908. 'From the Library of Thomas Hardy'; pres. ins. from author, 'his old friend and editor'. (Mathews 77/1) Formerly in the collection of Walter Pforzheimer. [Yale: Beinecke] Aldrich, Thomas Bailey. The Sisters' Tragedy, with Other Poems Lyrical and Dramatic. London: Macmillan, 1891. Red SCC bookplate; TH signature; v. lightly marked. (Collected Letters, i. 230; Taylor, Metres, 234) [DCM] Alison, Sir Archibald. Epitome of Alison's History of Europe from the Commencement of the French Revolution in 1789 to the Restoration of the Bourbons 1815. For the Use of Schools and Young Persons. Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1849. ('Third Edition') Red SCC bookplate; pres. ins. from G. S. Moule, Fordington Vicarage, Dec. 1857; heavy underlining of early section devoted to the Revolution; remainder lightly marked and annotated, with sketch map of Battle of Trafalgar, presumably by TH, inside back cover. (Life and Work, 80) [DCM] 4 ---. History of Europe from the Commencement of the French Revolution in M.DCC.LXXXIX to the Restoration of the Bourbons in M.DCCC.XV. 20 vols. Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1847-48. ('Seventh Edition') Red SCC bookplate; v. lightly marked; cuttings re Waterloo Ball inserted into vol. 17. (Rutland, 296; Wright, 164, 174, 176-8, etc.) [DCM] Allen, Grant. The British Barbarians: A Hill-Top Novel. London: John Lane, 1895. Bookplate; initialled pres. ins. from author. (Collected Letters, ii. 106; Maggs 664/3; Holmes 5/1) [Mark Samuels Lasner] ---. The Lower Slopes: Reminiscences of Excursions Round the Base of Helicon, Undertaken for the Most Part in Early Manhood. London: Elkin Mathews and John Lane, 1894. Bookplate; 4-line verse pres. ins. from author; v. light marking. (Collected Letters, ii. 58; Maggs 664/4) [Texas] ---. The Woman Who Did. London: John Lane, 1895. Bookplate; pres. ins. from author. (Collected Letters, ii. 68-9; MG Sale/114; Maggs 664/5; Parke-Bernet 4 May 1965/148) [Mark Samuels Lasner] ---. See also The Novel Review Allen, J. A. O. House and Garden. London, 1911. Bookplate; pres. ins. from author; TH draft reply on author's inserted letter of presentation; First Edition describes as off-print, presumably from the magazine House and Garden. Purdy records a sighting of this item in 1960. [First Edition Bookshop 33/18] Allen, James Lane. A Kentucky Cardinal. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1894. Bookplate. (Wreden 11/218) [Texas] Allhusen, Dorothy. Scents and Dishes. London, 1927. ('Rev. ed.') Bookplate; includes a few recipes from Max Gate. (Collected Letters, vii. 51) [William P. Wreden 11/219] Alma Mater: Aberdeen University Magazine. Vol. 24, No. 7 (November 1906). 'From Hardy's library at Max Gate'; includes article on TH. [Ifan Kyrle Fletcher 229/421] 'Alma Mater' Anthology--1833-1919. Aberdeen: W. & W. Lindsay, 1919. 5 Bookplate; pencilled 'Hardy' on f.f.e.p. seems not to be by TH; vol. includes TH's poem 'Aberdeen, 1905'. (First Edition 33/80) [Univ. of Toronto] Alma-Tadema, Laurence. Love's Martyr. London: Longmans, Green, 1886. Bookplate; TH signature; pres. ins. from author. (Collected Letters, vii. 102; Rota 58/428) [Univ. of Minnesota] ---. Realms of Unknown Kings. London, 1897. Bookplate; pres. ins. from author. Poems, pub. by Grant Richards. [William P. Wreden 11/80] American Poetry, 1922: A Miscellany. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1922. Bookplate; pres. ins. from Amy Lowell; TH's notes for letter to Lowell. (Collected Letters, vi. 186; MG Sale/218; Maggs 664/123, 771/388; Hofmann & Freeman 1926/82; Sotheby's 30 Jan. 1968/368) [Cornell Univ.] The Ancestor: A Quarterly Review of County and Family History, Heraldry and Antiquities. Westminster: Archibald Constable, April 1902. Bookplate. (Wreden 11/221) [Texas] Anders, H. R. D. Shakespeare's Books: A Dissertation on Shakespeare's Reading and the Immediate Sources of his Works. Berlin, 1904. ('With title in German and English') Bookplate. [Maggs Bros. 664/6] Andersen, Hans Christian. Fairy Tales: A New Translation. London, 1892. Bookplate; 'Markings by Hardy on page 7'. [William P. Wreden 11/96] ---. Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales. London: Blackie & Son, 1908. FED bookplate; ins. 'Florence E. Dugdale, from W.T.S.' (possibly 'W. J. S.'), all in FED's hand. [Yale: Purdy] Anderson, J. Redwood. Babel. London, 1927. Bookplate; pres. ins. from author. [Maggs Bros. 664/7] Andrews, C[larence] E[dward], and M[ilton] O. Percival, ed. Poetry of the Nineties. New York, 1926. Bookplate. 6 [Bertram Rota 58/361] The Animals' Friend. 1897-8. Bookplate; ELH signature; includes ELH's 'The Egyptian Pet' article. (Wreden 11/193) [Texas] Anthologie des poètes lyriques français. Paris, n.d. Bookplate; ELH signature. [William P. Wreden 11/140] Anthony, Joseph. The Gang. Unclear whether this was the New York edition, 1921, or the London edition, 1922. [Collected Letters, vi. 113] Antommarchi, F. Mémoires du docteur F. Antommarchi, ou les derniers momens [sic] de Napoléon. 2 vols. Paris: Barrois l'Ainé, 1825. Bookplate in vol. 1 only; TH signature vol. 1, initials vol. 2; authenticating signature of author on verso of title-page; largely unopened. (Collected Letters, vi. 105) [DCM] Arber, Edward, comp. The Cowper Anthology: 1775-1800 A.D. London: Henry Frowde, 1901. (Purdy purchase at MG Sale) [Yale: Purdy] ---, comp. The Dryden Anthology: 1675-1700 A.D.