Thomas Hardy - Under the Greenwood Tree - Edition in the series 'Collin's Modern Fiction' - London & Glasgow, Collin's Clear Type Press, [1911] - Original edition: Under the Greenwood Tree: A Rural Painting of the Dutch School (1872) - frontispiece+250+6p.(pub.) - Hardcover: linen binding with punched title cartouche on the front cover and (decorative) gold printed spine - 10.70x16cm - Good copy: signs of wear and use on the cover, handwritten names on the front endpaper and the frontispiece - spine, break in the endpaper connections (binding intact), age discolouration of the text block (mainly in the margins). * Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, including the poetry of William Wordsworth.[1] He was highly critical of much in Victorian society, especially on the declining status of rural people in Britain such as those from his native South West England. * Under the Greenwood Tree: A Rural Painting of the Dutch School is a novel by the English writer Thomas Hardy, published anonymously in 1872. It was Hardy's second published novel, and the first of what was to become his series of Wessex novels. * Plot : The novel follows the activities of a group of west gallery musicians, the Mellstock parish choir, one of whom, Dick Dewy, becomes romantically entangled with a comely new village schoolmistress, Fancy Day. (Sources: Wikipedia) * Film : The story was adapted for a 1929 film, and for a 2005 BBC TV film (made in Jersey) with Keeley Hawes as Fancy Day and James Murray as Dick Dewy. (A 1918 US film of the same title is unconnected). Shipping: well packaged/insured.