Author: HOWELL, JAMES.
Title: Epistolae Ho-Elianae: familiar Letters Domestick and Foreign, Divided into Four Books; Partly Historical, Political, Philosophical: Upon Emergent occasions.
Description: Corrected Ninth Edition; Demy 8vo; pp. 518, (10) index; engraved frontispiece by F. H. Van Hove, bound in full calf, raised bands, gilt decoration in compartments, title label partly missing, armoral bookplate of J. H. Hodgetts Foley on front endpaper, front hinge weak still a good copy. London; Printed for J. Darby, A. Bettesworth, F. Fayram, J. Osborn and T. Longman, J. Pemberton, C. Rivington, J. Hooke, F. Clay, J. Batley, E. Symon; 1726. The book was written by Howell while he was in prison, he is credited with pioneering the style of writing fictitious correspondence as a literary style, The first edition was published in 1645 and went through numerous editions over the proceeding years.
Keywords: english literature letters philosophy political history england
Title: Epistolae Ho-Elianae: familiar Letters Domestick and Foreign, Divided into Four Books; Partly Historical, Political, Philosophical: Upon Emergent occasions.
Description: Corrected Ninth Edition; Demy 8vo; pp. 518, (10) index; engraved frontispiece by F. H. Van Hove, bound in full calf, raised bands, gilt decoration in compartments, title label partly missing, armoral bookplate of J. H. Hodgetts Foley on front endpaper, front hinge weak still a good copy. London; Printed for J. Darby, A. Bettesworth, F. Fayram, J. Osborn and T. Longman, J. Pemberton, C. Rivington, J. Hooke, F. Clay, J. Batley, E. Symon; 1726. The book was written by Howell while he was in prison, he is credited with pioneering the style of writing fictitious correspondence as a literary style, The first edition was published in 1645 and went through numerous editions over the proceeding years.
Keywords: english literature letters philosophy political history england
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- Book number: 116395
- Book number: 116395