FITCH, GEORGE HAMLIN - Modern English Books of Power

NY: Barse & Hopkins, 1912. First Printing. Leather. Finely bound in half-leather over marbled boards, spine in six compartments separated by raised bands, gilt lettering in two compartments, gilt tooling in remainder, gilt borders on covers, t.e.g, marbled endpapers. Illustrated with 32 tipped-in plates. Includes Bibliography and Index. This is a collection of essays on the writings of the great English writers, including Macaulay, Sir Walter Scott, Thomas Carlyle, De Quincey, Charles Lamb, Dickens, Thackeray, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, Ruskin, Tennyson, Browning, Stevenson, Thomas Hardy, and Kipling. George Hamlin Fitch (1852-1925) wrote a weekly column for the Sunday book page of the San Francisco Chronicle for over 30 years. He later collected these columns in his 1911 book, "Comfort Found in Good Old Books." He published this volume in the following year. In 1913 he published "The Critic in the Orient." . Small chip on spine, minor edge-wear, unmarked, seemingly unread, tight, square and clean. A very handsome volume. VERY GOOD. Tipped-In Plates. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall. (xv), 173 pp. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued .

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