Lectures and Essays

by SMITH, Goldwin

$40 · Offered by Biblio

Toronto: Printed for the author by Hunter, Rose & Co, 1781. Hardcover. Good. viii, 336 p. 23 cm. Brown cloth hardcover. Worn extremities, some soiling to cloth. Bookplate for William Addison Child on front pastedown and his stamp on front free endpaper. Tipped in label states With the Author's Compliments. Front free endpaper coming loose at bottom. Stome thumbing and marks to first pages mainly. Pages 115-126 loosening. Paper browning. Worm holes at bottom of front endpapers. Topics include: The Greatness of the Romans; The Greatness of England; The Lamps of Fiction (A speech on the Centenary of the Birth of Sir Walter Scott); The Ascent of Man; The Proposed Substitutes for Religion; The Labour Movement; The Early Years of Abraham Lincoln; Austen-Leigh's Memoir of Jane Austen; etc. Each gives the name of the magazine or newspaper it which it originally appeared.

• Publisher: Printed for the author by Hunter, Rose & Co
• Year: 1781
• Binding: hardcover

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