Literary studies / by the late Walter Bagehot ; with a prefatory memoir edited by Richard Holt Hutton. Complete in 2 Volumes
1879, First Edition. London : Longmans, Green, and Co. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Item #380053
Physical description : 2 volumes : frontispiece (portrait) ; 23 cm. Contents : Vol.1. Preliminary memoir. Essay: The first Edinburgh reviewers (1855). Hartley Coleridge (1852). Percy Bysshe Shelley (1856). Shakespeare: the man (1853). John Milton (1859). Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1862). William Cowper (1855). Appendix: Letters on the French coup d'etat of 1851 (1852). Cæsarism as it existed in 1865. Memoir of the Right Hon. James Wilson (1860). -- Vol. 2. Edward Gibbon (1856). Bishop Butler (1854). Sterne and Thackeray (1864). The Waverley novels (1858). Charles Dickens (1858). Thomas Babington Macaulay (1856). Béranger (l857). Mr. Clough's poems (1862). Henry Crabb Robinson (1869). Wordsworth, Tennyson, and Browning, or, Pure, ornate, and grotesque art in English poetry (1864). Appendix: The ignorance of man (1862). On the emotion of conviction (1871). The metaphysical basis of toleration (1874). The Public worship regulation bill (1874). Subjects :
English literature. Great Britain ; Literature. Memoir. Non-Fiction.
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