THE TRUMPET-MAJOR
Written by Thomas Hardy, Paul I. Webb
Illustrated by Peter Reddick
Published by Folio Society
in 1990
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- FOLIO SOCIETY
- LITERATURE
- WOOD ENGRAVINGS
THE TRUMPET-MAJOR
Written by Thomas Hardy, Paul I. Webb.
Illustrated by Peter Reddick.
Stock no. 1830369
1990.
Hardback.
Nearly fine condition.
Introduction by Paul I. Webb. Red cloth boards, red title block with gilt title to spine. Corn dolly motif to front cover. B/w wood engravings. xvi and 314 pages. Second printing. A lovely copy contained in publisher's slipcase which is slightly scuffed.
Front cover
Contents
- Introduction
- Preface to the 1895 Edition - TH
- What was seen from the Window overlooking the Down
- Somebody knocks and comes in
- The Mill becomes an important Centre of Operations
- Who were present at the Miller's little Entertainment
- The Song and the Stranger
- Old Mr Derriman of Oxwell Hall
- How they talked in the Pastures
- Anne makes a Circuit of the Camp
- Anne is kindly fetched by the Trumpet-Major
- The Match-making Virtues of a Double Garden
- Our People are affected by the Presence of Royalty
- How Everybody, great and small, climbed to the Top of the Downs
- The Conversation in the Crowd
- Later in the Evening of the Same Day
- 'Captain' Bob Loveday, of the Merchant Service
- They make Ready for the Illustrious Stranger
- Two Fainting Fits and a Bewilderment
- The Night after the Arrival
- Miss Johnson's Behaviour causes no little surprise
- How they lessened the Effect of the Calamity
- 'Upon the Hill be turned'
- The Two Households United
- Military Preparations on an extended Scale
- A Letter, a Visitor and a Tin Box
- Festus shows his Love
- The Alarm
- Danger to Anne
- Anne does Wonders
- A Dissembler
- At the Theatre Royal
- Midnight Visitors
- Deliverance
- A Discovery turns the Scale
- A Speck on the Sea
- A Sailor Enters
- Derriman sees Chances
- Reaction
- A Delicate Situation
- Bob Loveday struts up and down
- A Call of Business
- John Marches into the Night