A History of Story-Telling Studies in the Development of Narrative

Ransome, Arthur (illustrated by J. Gavin)

Published by London T. C. & E. C. Jack 1909, 1909

About this Item

First edition. 318 pages + 27 black and white portrait illustrations. Hammonds second issue, stamped in black to the front board, and with an errata slip before the Preface. The book is quite firmly bound in the publisher's blue cloth, lettered and illustrated in black and gilt, the cloth is slightly marked and rubbed, the spine is slightly age darkened and the extremities are bumped. The text block is slightly foxed, marked and toned, with the neatly written ink ownership inscription of a George H. Green to the front endpaper, dated 1921, with his rather attractive bookplate to the front pastedown opposite, featuring a vorticist inspired design. A series of light but entertaining essays on the development of literary craft across the centuries, mainly devoted to English male authors, though with a typical sprinkling of Europeans, several Americans and two women, Fanny Burney and Jane Austen, who come off reasonably well for the period (Austen less so in Gavin's portrait).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A History of Story-Telling Studies in the Development of Narrative
• Publisher: London T. C. & E. C. Jack 1909
• Publication Date: 1909
• Edition: 1st Edition