Books and characters, French & English / by Lytton Strachey
1922, 1st edition. London : Chatto & Windus. Very good copy in the original cloth with paper label to spine. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #429871
Physical description: 5 preliminary unnumbered leaves, 306 pages, 6 unnumbered leaves of plates : frontispiece, portraits ; 23 cmContents
Racine -- Sir Thomas Browne -- Shakespeare's final period -- The lives of the poets -- Madame du Deffand -- Voltaire and England -- A dialogue -- Voltaire's tragedies -- Voltaire and Frederick the Great -- The Rousseau affair -- The poetry of Blake -- The last Elizabethan -- Henri Beyle -- Lady Hester Stanhope -- Mr. Creevey. Subjects: Strachey, Lytton 1880-1932. English literature History and criticism. French literature History and criticism. Authors, English. Authors, French.
Price: €21.95