A presentation copy, inscribed on recto of front free endpaper: “To Hermann Lea with kind regards from Arthur Symons.”
Like Symons, Lea was a devotee of Thomas Hardy, and collaborated with Hardy on a series of photographs, as published in Thomas Hardy’s Wessex Country published by Macmillan in 1913.
Binding slightly worn.
NB!! THE PHOTOGRAPH BELOW IS NOT PRESENT WITH THE BOOK - I’m leaving it in for now just to remind us.
Loosely inserted is an apparently UNPUBLISHED PHOTO–dull finish and on thin stock, but almost surely a photograph rather than photogravure–of Symons dating from around the date of publication of this book. 15 x 10.2 cm., margins at both sides cut off. Book in very nice condition, photograph very good.
