Author: BORROW, GEORGE
Title: Lavengro: The Scholar, the Gipsy, the Priest (Everyman's Library #119)
Description: London / New York: Everyman's Library - J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. / E. P. Dutton & Co, Inc, 1907. Hardcover. A 1907 reprint of the 1906 issuance. Per Donald Armstrong Ross, "Lavengro" is part autobiography and part novel. The author, George Borrow (1803-1881) was an English author who traveled extensively in Europe and was intrigued with the Romany people he found there. Includes an introduction by Thomas Seccombe. Entry 119 in Everyman's Library Fiction series, edited by Ernest Rhys. --- In flatback binding style 1, full carmine cloth-covered boards with elaborate Reginald Knowles-designed gilt spine titling & decorations, blindstamped J. M. Dent vignette to front cover, dark topstain and fancy Knowles woodcut art at title page, endpapers & frontis. Volume lacks the dust jacket. --- With conspicuous sunning to spine and prior owner's discreet rubberstamping to front free endpaper, else a tightly-bound, sound copy.; 16mo (6 to 7 in. tall); xxvi, 547 pages. Good+ with no dust jacket .

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