Author: Jessopp, Rev. Augustus, D.D. [1824 - 1914]
Title: SIMON RYAN The PETERITE
Description: London: T. Fisher Unwin, Paternoster Square, 1896. 1st Edition. Deluxe publishers yellow full leather binding, gilt stamping, TEG, yellow patterned paper eps. Yellow slipcase. 119, [1] pp. Laid in a newspaper extract, a contemporaneous review as published in a Norwich newspaper. Frontispiece. 6-7/8" x 3-5/8". Minor wear & soiling to binding, with the backstrip ever so slightly sunned. VG+ Slipcase with some wear & discoloration to one side, 2 seams starting, but overall holding up much better than one has any right to expect, Very Good. Jessopp "was an English cleric and writer. He spent periods of time as a schoolmaster and then later as a clergyman in Norfolk, England. He wrote regular articles for The Nineteenth Century, variously on humorous, polemical and historical topics. He published scholarly work on local Norfolk history and on aspects of English literature. A good friend of the academic and ghost-story writer M. R. James, he is described by James' biographer R. W. Pfaff as 'a fine specimen of the learned but somewhat eccentric country parson.'" [Wiki] The laudatory review laid herein concludes with, "The little book is sweetly printed, and got up in a quaint style that is very agreeable. Altogether, we hope this is only the first of many similar efforts which we shall get from our gifted neighbor's pen.".

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