Lavengro; the scholar, the gypsy, the priest. In three volumes
$275 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books
London: John Murray, 1851. First ediiton, 8vo, 3 volumes, engraved portrait frontispiece in volume I; original ribbed green cloth, paper labels on spines; a very good, sound set. Borrow's most controversial work which gained him innumerable critics and enemies. Autobiographical in content although he denied it , Lavengro was a vitriolic attack on Roman Catholicism in England, as well as a brilliant series of character studies and observations on life in the
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