English Wits: Their Lives and Jests
Published by Hutchinson & Co., 1940
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Chase Rare Books, Fulmer, Buckinghamshire, United KingdomChase Rare Books
AbeBooks seller since October 6, 2022
Condition: Used - Very good
US$ 277.50
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RUSSELL, Leonard (Ed.); RAVILIOUS, Eric (Illus.). English Wits: Their Lives and Jests. London: Hutchinson, 1940. First edition. Dust jacket, half-title, and headpieces by Eric Ravilious (1903-1942), painter, illustrator, lithographer, wood engraver, and designer, now regarded as one of the finest English artists of the twentieth century. Ravilious served as a war artist and was killed on a search and rescue flight from Iceland in September 1942. This book is a treasury of wit and biography, edited by Leonard Russell (1906-74), literary editor of the Sunday Times. Contents include Alexander Pope by Dilys Powell; Dr Johnson by Ronald A. Knox; Oscar Wilde by Desmond MacCarthy; Whistler by D.B. Wyndham Lewis; Sydney Smith by Ernest Newman; Theodore Hook by A.J.A. Symons; Charles Lamb by Robert Lynd; Sheridan by Campbell Dixon; John Wilkes by Olga Venn; Henry Labouchere by W.W. Hadley; Max Beerbohm by Gerard Hopkins; George Bernard Shaw by Harold Hobson; "Saki" by John Gore; Mary Russell Mitford by James Agate. xiv, 350pp. 8vo, original cloth, bottom corner bumped, edges a little spotted. Very good in very good dust jacket (slight edge-wear; not price-clipped).…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- English Wits: Their Lives and Jests
- Author
- RUSSELL, Leonard (Ed.); RAVILIOUS, Eric (Illus.)
- Publisher
- Hutchinson & Co.
- Publication year
- 1940
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Item weight
- 0.7 kilograms
Chase Rare Books
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