Author: JOHNSON, SAMUEL; WALPOLE, HORACE; BECKFORD, WILLIAM; HENDERSON, PHILIP (INTRODUCTION AND NOTES)
Title: Shorter Novels of the Eighteenth Century: Rasselas, the Castle of Otranto, Vathek (Everyman's Library #856)
Description: London / New York: Everyman's Library - J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. / E. P. Dutton & Co, Inc, 1961. Hardcover. A 1961 reprint edition of the 1930 issuance. An Everyman's Library edition presenting three shorter novels of the 18th century: "The History of Rasselas" by Samuel Johnson, "The Castle of Otranto" by Horace Walpole and "Vathek" by William Beckford. With an introduction and notes by Philip Henderson. Number 856 in Everyman's Library Fiction series. --- In Everyman's Library larger format binding style 4. Full plum cloth-covered boards with spine titling and interlocked "EL" in script at tail of spine, both in copper foil. Volume wrapped in variant jacket with Ian Smythe illustration of a character expressing great fear. --- A sound copy but with mild soiling to cloth, interior is clean and unmarked. Dust jacket with considerable rubbing and sunned spine but remains intact and wrapped in removable clear plastic protector.; 12mo - 7 to 7-1/2 in. tall; xi, 278, 8 (ads) pages. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket .
Keywords: >>Classic Fiction, Literature >>Everyman's Library Editions
Title: Shorter Novels of the Eighteenth Century: Rasselas, the Castle of Otranto, Vathek (Everyman's Library #856)
Description: London / New York: Everyman's Library - J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. / E. P. Dutton & Co, Inc, 1961. Hardcover. A 1961 reprint edition of the 1930 issuance. An Everyman's Library edition presenting three shorter novels of the 18th century: "The History of Rasselas" by Samuel Johnson, "The Castle of Otranto" by Horace Walpole and "Vathek" by William Beckford. With an introduction and notes by Philip Henderson. Number 856 in Everyman's Library Fiction series. --- In Everyman's Library larger format binding style 4. Full plum cloth-covered boards with spine titling and interlocked "EL" in script at tail of spine, both in copper foil. Volume wrapped in variant jacket with Ian Smythe illustration of a character expressing great fear. --- A sound copy but with mild soiling to cloth, interior is clean and unmarked. Dust jacket with considerable rubbing and sunned spine but remains intact and wrapped in removable clear plastic protector.; 12mo - 7 to 7-1/2 in. tall; xi, 278, 8 (ads) pages. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket .
Keywords: >>Classic Fiction, Literature >>Everyman's Library Editions
Price: US$ 17.00 Seller: Bluebird Books
- Book number: 88448
- Book number: 88448