Author: RHYS, ERNEST; VAUGHAN, LLOYD (SELECTORS)
Title: A Century of English Essays: An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R.L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time (Everyman's Library #653)
Description: London / New York: Everyman's Library - J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. / E. P. Dutton & Co, Inc, 1920. Hardcover. A 1920 reprint of the 1913 issuance. An Everyman's Library edition offering short essays by a wide variety of subjects by noted English authors, such as William Caxton, Shakespeare, Bacon, Chesterton, Belloc, Robert Louis Stevenson and many others. Earlier printings of this edition were titled "A Century of English Essays: From Caxton to Belloc." Essays selected by Lloyd Vaughan and Ernest Rhys, the latter supplying an introduction. Everyman's Library catalog no. 653, in their Essays series, edited by Mr. 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. --- Spine gilding with considerable dulling, and with prior owner's signature to front paste-down and acidic staining to front & rear endpapers, else a tightly-bound, sound copy.; 16mo - 6 to 7 in. tall; xiii, 474, 8 (ads) pages. Very Good with no dust jacket .
Keywords: >>Philosophy/Psychology/Thought >>Everyman's Library Editions
Title: A Century of English Essays: An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R.L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time (Everyman's Library #653)
Description: London / New York: Everyman's Library - J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. / E. P. Dutton & Co, Inc, 1920. Hardcover. A 1920 reprint of the 1913 issuance. An Everyman's Library edition offering short essays by a wide variety of subjects by noted English authors, such as William Caxton, Shakespeare, Bacon, Chesterton, Belloc, Robert Louis Stevenson and many others. Earlier printings of this edition were titled "A Century of English Essays: From Caxton to Belloc." Essays selected by Lloyd Vaughan and Ernest Rhys, the latter supplying an introduction. Everyman's Library catalog no. 653, in their Essays series, edited by Mr. 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. --- Spine gilding with considerable dulling, and with prior owner's signature to front paste-down and acidic staining to front & rear endpapers, else a tightly-bound, sound copy.; 16mo - 6 to 7 in. tall; xiii, 474, 8 (ads) pages. Very Good with no dust jacket .
Keywords: >>Philosophy/Psychology/Thought >>Everyman's Library Editions
Price: US$ 14.50 Seller: Bluebird Books
- Book number: 88796
- Book number: 88796