Essays of British Essayists, Including Biographical and Critical Sketches, World's Great Classics series, in 2 volumes (complete)

Starkweather, Chauncey C., special introduction

Published by The Colonial Press, New York, 1900

About this Item

New York: Colonial, 1900. Revised edition with special introduction by Starkweather. 8vo. Ribbed green silk, gilt decoration to spine, teg, 447, 456 pp. Series title, frontispieces, captioned tissue, plus seven additional illustrations in the two volumes. This collections contains a broad series of essays, excellent for study, including Francis Bacon, Robert Burton, Sir Thomas Browne, Thomas Fuller, John Milton, Abraham Cowley, Sir William Temple, John Dryden, John Locke, Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Sir Richard Steele, Joseph Addison, Alexander Pope, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Henry Fielding, Samuel Johnson, David Hume, William Shenstone, Thomas Gray, Horace Walpole, Oliver Goldsmith, Edmund Burke, William Cowper, George Colman and Bonnell Thornton, Henry Mackenzie, Sydney Smith, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Francis Jeffrey, Charles Lamb, Walter Savage Landor, William Hazlitt, Leigh Hunt, Thomas De Quincy, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Thomas Carlyle, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Douglas Jerrold, William Makepeace Thackeray, Arthur Helps, James Anthony Froude, John Ruskin, Charles Kingsley, Herbert Spencer, Matthew Arnold, Edward Augustus Freeman, Thomas Henry Huxley, and Sir John Lubbock. Minimal library markings, very readable books in very good condition.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Essays of British Essayists, Including Biographical and Critical Sketches, World's Great Classics series, in 2 volumes (complete)
• Publisher: The Colonial Press, New York
• Publication Date: 1900
• Binding: Silk
• Illustrator: Illustrated
• Edition: First Thus
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Rare Literature and Fiction