Author: HAZLITT, WILLIAM
Title: Lectures on English Comic Writers, with Miscellaneous Essays (Everyman's Library #411)
Description: London / New York: Everyman's Library - J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. / E. P. Dutton & Co, Inc, [c.1910]. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0375505520. An undated, probable first Everyman's Library edition (1910), so indicated by lack of subsequent printings on the copyright page. A collection of William Hazlitt's wide-ranging lectures on English writers and writings. Hazlitt (1778-1830) was a prominent English literary critic and painter. With an introduction by A. R. Waller. Everyman's Library #411 in their "Essays and Belles Lettres" series, edited by Ernest Rhys. --- In 'flatback' binding style 1, full ribbed terra cotta 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. --- A well-preserved copy: unmarked, tightly-bound and sound, though with a hint of sunning to spine.; 16mo - 6 to 7 in. tall; xii, (2), 5-340 pages. Very Good+ with no dust jacket .

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