Clive Holland — Wessex

London, Adam and Charles Black, 1912. Cloth. A later edition of this beautifully illustrated work depicting Thomas Hardy's 'Wessex&apos. Later edition, first published in 1906. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, seventy-four colour plates, and a folding map to the rear. Collated complete. This work explores the fictional and historical realm of Wessex, originally a county before 1066, with the name being used for Thomas Hardy's fictional landscape of South-Western Britain. Many of these illustrations were the inspiration for Hardy's portrayal of Wessex. Written by Charles James Hankinson, who wrote under the name Clive Holland, an English journalist and photographer. Illustrated by Walter Frederick Roope Tyndale, a British watercolourist of landscapes, architecture and street scenes, book illustrator and travel writer. In the original green pictorial cloth binding. Externally, sound with rubbing and minor bumping to the extremities. The odd small mark to the cloth. Splits in the cloth to the joints with light loss to the head and tail of the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot and light age toning to the extremities. Further spotting to the endpapers. With the bookseller's label to the front pastedown. Good . Ill.: Walter Tyndale. Good .