The Note-Books of Samuel Butler. Volume I (1874-1883)

Hans-Peter Breuer

ISBN 10: 0819141933 / ISBN 13: 9780819141934

Published by University Press of America, Lanham, MD, 1984

About this Item

The first volume of the complete edition of Samuel Butler's manuscript Note-Books (1874-1902). Blue cloth gilt. 386 pages. With the book plate of Timothy d'Arch Smith, designed by Gordon Craig.

Seller Inventory # 007497

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Note-Books of Samuel Butler. Volume I (1874-1883)
• Publisher: University Press of America, Lanham, MD
• Publication Date: 1984
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0819141933
• ISBN 13: 9780819141934
• Binding: Cloth
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

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Synopsis

This volume is the first complete, critical, and fully annotated edition of the first volume of the Complete Note-Books of Samuel Butler, 19th-century satirist and author of The Way of All Flesh and Erewhon.

Review

The present version of Samuel Butler's celebrated Note-Books is an impressive effort to bring order to the long succession of comments on his life and thoughts put together by Butler in his lifetime...impressive editorial exercise. (Modern Fiction Studies)

This is an admirable edition, and about time. Breuer has printed the Note-Books carefully and allowed them to be read as the 1920s preferred (as a collection of clever sayings...)....the reader can go through these Note-Books looking for the witty Butler, or the scholar can see the development of his mind. Both readings are possible, as they have not been until this edition. All nineteenth-century afficionados should be grateful for this edition. (Analytical and Enumerative Bibliography)

This is an admirable edition, and about time. Breuer has printed the Note-Books carefully and allowed them to be read as the 1920s preferred (as a collection of clever sayings...)....the reader can go through these Note-Books looking for the witty Butler, or the scholar can see the development of his mind. Both readings are possible, as they have not been until this edition. All nineteenth-century afficionados should be grateful for this edition. (Analytical and Enumerative Bibliography)

The present version of Samuel Butler's celebrated Note-Books is an impressive effort to bring order to the long succession of comments on his life and thoughts put together by Butler in his lifetime...impressive editorial exercise. (Modern Fiction Studies)