Source of photograph: The Mayor of Casterbridge in the Anniversary Edition of the Wessex Novels, 1920, based in part on previous editions and the photographs of 1912. Facing title-page.

The King's Arms' Hotel (figuring under its rightful name) stands in the High Street, and is the chief hotel in the place. Its "spacious bow-window projected into the street over the main portico," through which Mrs. Henchard saw her husband being entertained as Mayor of Casterbridge. F. B. Pinion notes that Bathsheba, upon learning of Frank Troy's drowning, was carried by Boldwood into the King'as Arms (in Far From the Madding Crowd. In The Trumpet Major, "Bob Loveday went one Sunday to meet the mail-coach at the King's Arms, expecting Matilda Johnson to arrive. He was disappointed (Pinion 268).

[These remarks by the anonymous editors often seem to be based on Thomas Hardy's Wessex (1913) by Herman Lea -- PVA].

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