Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
1896. No edition remarks. 515 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth covered boards with gilt. Original etching printed as frontispiece with tissue guard. Rough cut edges to textblock with gilt top edge. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Cracking to front hinge with netting exposed. Binding loose. Minor pencil inscriptions to front free endpaper. Tissue guard with small tear and detaching. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing, fraying and heavy tearing to spine ends and edges. All surfaces heavily tanned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is dulled but remains brighter on front. Book has slight forward lean.