Author: Edmond Gosse
Title: Life of William Congreve
Description: London, Walter Scott, 1888. First edition. Leather. This first edition copy of William Congreve's biography is in an attractive green leather binding. An attractive first edition of Edmond Gosse's biography of the Restoration playwright and politician William Congreve. Congreve's career as a playwright was successful but brief, writing five plays in total between 1693 to 1700, and in this finely bound volume Gosse offers a chronological survey of his literary career. Gosse was an English poet and critic, who's translations of Henrik Ibsen's plays helped popularise the Norwegian playwright in England. Gosse also had a second career as a sculptor. With six pages of publisher's adverts to the rear. In a green quarter calf binding over patterned paper boards. Externally, lovely, with some light handling marks near the joints. Internally, firmly bound, with bright and clean pages throughout. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine .

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