Shakespearian Comedy and other Studies

vii+158 pages with index. Small octavo (7 1/2" x 5") bound in original publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Second edition. George Gordon was a British literary scholar. Gordon was Professor of English Literature at the University of Leeds from 1913 to 1922. Later, he was Merton Professor of English Literature at Oxford, from 1922 to 1928; President of Magdalen College, Oxford, Professor of Poetry there, and Vice-Chancellor (1938 1941). He was one of the Kolbítar, J. R. R. Tolkien's group of readers of Icelandic sagas. Condition: Covers lightly rubbed else very good.