This etext was prepared by Les Bowler.

THE TRUMPET-MAJOR
JOHN LOVEDAY

a soldier in the war with buonaparte
and
ROBERT HIS BROTHER
first mate in the merchant service

A TALE

by
THOMAS HARDY

with a map of wessex

macmillan and co., limited
st. martin’s street, london
1920

copyright

First Edition (3 vols.) 1880. New Edition (1 vol.) and reprints 1881-1893
New Edition and reprints 1896-1900
First published by Macmillan and Co., Crown 8vo, 1903. Reprinted 1906, 1910, 1914
Pocket Edition 1907. Reprinted 1909, 1912, 1915, 1917, 1919, 1920