Great English Novelists
Jackson, Holbrook
Publication Date |
1908 |
Publisher |
Grant Richards |
Binding |
Hardback |
Condition |
Good+, sound copy |
SKU |
23813 |
Notes |
Lightly rubbed to edges. Spine is faded and tanned. Clean and sound. |
Description
Hardback. 312pp. Frontis engraving of Charles Dickens. 31 further portrait plates showing writers including: Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, William Makepeace Thackeray and George Meredith. The introduction Notes that the author would have liked ‘to include Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte and George Eliot ... but the women novelists are to have a volume to themselves’. Red cloth with gilt titles and gilt decoration to both front and spine. Edges are uncut. A dated but unusually well illustrated volume of literary criticism.
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