Henry Festing Jones - Samuel Butler: Author of Erewhon (1835-1902): A Memoir

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited , 1919-1920. Cloth. A pleasing biography of novelist Samuel Butler, written by his close friend Henry Festing Jones and complete in two volumes, illustrated throughout. A complete memoir of Samuel Butler, in two volumes. Volume I is the second impression (published the year after the first) and Volume II is the first edition. Bound in the publisher's original maroon cloth. Volume I is illustrated with a frontispiece and eleven plates. Volume II is illustrated with a frontispiece and nine plates. Collated, complete. A posthumous biography of novelist and critic Samuel Butler, who is best known for his satirical utopian novel 'Erewhon' (1872). Written by Henry Festing Jones, an English solicitor, writer and friend of Butler. This biographical work won Jones the inaugural James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Uniformly bound in the original cloth. Externally, very smart, with light rubbing and bumping to the extremities. With small marks to the boards of Volume I. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, with scattered spots and offsetting to the endpapers. Very Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good .

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