Eminent Victorians

The Modern Library, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1964. Modern Library Edition. Printing not specified, but printed in Fall of 1964, based on the following: (1) Toledano Binding Style #10 in use only for late 1963 and 1964; (2) Dust Jacket design in use from 1963 - 1970; (3) Dust Jacket Back style l apparently only in use from 1965 to 1970; (4) List of ML Giants at back of book includes Spenser, Selected Poetry but not Spengler, Decline of the West, i.e., the list for Fall, 1964; (5) Rockwell Kent endpapers in use up to 1967. Fine in a Near Fine- Dust Jacket. The Text Block is clean, white, tight, straight and square, with no markings of any kind other than a prior owner's embossed seal on the title page. The Binding is full blue cloth, color uniform throughout, with right-facing Kent torchbearer image enscribed within hexagon followed by blindstamped "MODERN LIBRARY" to the front board, bright gilt title, etc., to the spine, unmarked gray Rockwell Kent endpapers, and all corners square and sharp. The Dust Jacket has occasional loss of color to the front board, wear and a small chip to the heel of the spine, and is price clipped. See the photos. ix, 342, [ii] pages. 4 7/8" x 7 1/4". With these biographies of three men and a woman who had until then been regarded as heroes - Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Thomas Arnold and General Charles Gordon, the author established a new form of biography in which psychological insight and sympathy are combined with irreverence and wit. Nightgale is portrayed favorably and with sympathy against the obtuseness of the military and politicians, while the other three are seen in a lesser light than the heroic tradition had given them. The work was originally published in 1918 by Chatto and Windus, and first published by Modern Library in 1933.…