The Modern British Essayists, Vol. VII; Critical and Miscellaneous Writings of T. Noon Talfourd and Critical and Miscellaneous Essays By James Stephen In One Volume (Bound Together Into One Volume)

by Talfourd, T. Noon/Stephen, James

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Philadelphia: A. Hart, Late Carey Hart, 1852 Book. Illus. by Frontispiece Portrait of Talfourd. Good to Very Good. Hardcover. 4to - over 9 - 12 tall. Brown cloth on boards, lettered in gilt. Essays of two authors bound into one volume. Talfourd, 176 pp. Stephen, 158 pp. Among Talfourd s subjects are British Novels and Romances, Modern Periodical Literature, and The Melo-Dramas Against Gambling. Among Stephens s subjects are Life and Times of Richard Baxter, Physical Theory of Another Life, and Ignatius Loyola and His Associates. Kingston Lyceum in ink handwriting on first free endpaper. No other writing. Tiny nick our of head of spine. Light foxing limited to rear (blank) endpapers. Both writers were lawyers who added to their incomes by writing. Stephen notably opposed slavery. He was the great grandfather of Virginia Woolf..

  • Publisher: A. Hart, Late Carey & Hart
  • Year: 1852
  • Binding: hardcover

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