Books and Papers from the Frederick B Adams Library of Thomas Hardy

Item date: 19th - 20th centuries
Grant Value: 18,500
Item cost: 211, 070
Item date acquired: 2001
Item institution: Dorset County Museum
Town/City: Dorchester
County: Dorset

Acquisitions include Hardys working drawings for family tombstones at Stinsford, the original Macbeth-Raeburn illustrations for the Osgood, McIlvaine Wessex Novels editions and 7 lots relating to national and Dorchester productions of Hardys dramatic works. Illustrated at p.34 of AR

Item Provenance
Collection of Frederick B Adams, Sothebys November 2001