Lectures on the English comic writers. Delivered at the Surrey Institution

Hazlitt, William

Published by printed for Taylor and Hessey, 93, Fleet Street, London, 1819

About this Item

First edition, 8vo, pp. [4], 343, [1], [4] Taylor and Hessey ads (including one for Endymion, by John Keats); original brown paper-covered boards, printed paper label on spine; small paper losses along the front joint, but generally a very good, sound copy. "The delivery of the lectures began on the first Tuesday of November 1818 and ended on the first Tuesday of January 1819. They were condemned by Crabb Robinson, who wrote of the second of them: 'November 17. I heard a lecture from Hazlitt at the Surrey Institution. It was not good. He is sinking fast as a lecturer' . The lectures were very favorably criticized in the Morning Chronicle . and when the book was published in April 1819 they were greatly approved by Leight Hunt in The Examiner . Taylor and Hessey were the publishers, but in spite of such appreciative comment they do not appear to have found a ready sale for the book, and it was not reprinted in the author's lifetime" (Keynes). Keynes 44. NCBEL III 1232.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Lectures on the English comic writers. Delivered at the Surrey Institution
• Publisher: printed for Taylor and Hessey, 93, Fleet Street, London
• Publication Date: 1819
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Seller catalogs:
  • English Literature