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FROUDE, JAMES ANTHONY - Short Studies on Great Subjects, Volume Two (Everyman's Library #705)

Title: Short Studies on Great Subjects, Volume Two (Everyman's Library #705)
Description: London / New York: Everyman's Library - J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. / E. P. Dutton & Co, Inc, [c.1911]. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. An undated, probable first Everyman's Library edition (1911). The second of two volumes by James Anthony Froude presenting his lectures, which examine weighty issues. This installment includes "The Science of History," "Criticism and the Gospel History," "Homer" and nine other lectures. The author was a noted 19th century English historian and author. Everyman's Library #705, an entry in EL's Essays & Belles Lettres series, edited by Ernest Rhys. --- In flatback binding style 1, full ribbed orange cloth-covered boards with elaborate Reginald Knowles-designed gilt spine titling & decorations, blindstamped J. M. Dent vignette to front cover, brown topstain and fancy Knowles woodcut art at title page, endpapers & frontis. Volume lacks the dust jacket. --- With mild soiling to front cover and slight dulling to spine gilding, otherwise a tightly-bound, unmarked, sound copy.; 16mo - 6 to 7 in. tall; viii, 298 pages. Very Good with no dust jacket .

Keywords: >>Philosophy/Psychology/Thought >>Religion and Spirituality >>Everyman's Library Editions

Price: US$ 16.50 Seller: Bluebird Books
- Book number: 87018