SOME STRANGE ENGLISH LITERARY FIGURES OF THE EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH CENTURIES In a Series of Lectures ... Edited

by R. Tanabé by Lafcadio Hearn

$100 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition

Tokyo: The Hokuseido Press, n.d. 1927 . Octavo, pp. 1-8 1-3 4-140, printed colophon tipped onto recto of terminal flyleaf, color frontispiece with tissue guard and ten plates inserted, original green cloth, spine panel stamped in gold, t.e.g., other edges untrimmed. First edition, first and only printing. Eleven of the lectures Hearn dictated to his students of English literature, graduate class of 1899, at Tokyo

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