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Second edition, published in October 1934 - revised and enlarged. This is the first reprint from 1941, published to war-economy standards. The book was originally published in 1932. Printed by R. Maclehose and Company Limited at The University Press, Glasgow. ***Near fine in reddish-brown cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. The gilt is still perfectly bright. Cloth nice and clean and unmarked, having been protected by the dustwrapper. Head and tail of spine slightly creased and faded. Corners sharp. Spine tight. The fore-edge and bottom edge of the page block is rough-cut (untrimmed) as is common with Faber editions from this period. Internally also near fine, with none of the usual off-setting to the endpapers and no foxing. Although the book is bound in a wartime binding, and is quite fragile, there is no splitting at the hinges. No inscriptions, but there are a few annotations in light pencil (could be erased) - pages clean, with no tears or creases. Thin paper used throughout - just the last blank leaf has a crease. ***In a very good original pale-green dustwrapper, which is slightly nicked and creased at the edges, but which retains the publisher's printed price of 12s. 6d. net. The wartime dustwrapper is very thin but largely complete, with just some small areas of loss at the top and tail of the spine and corners of foldovers. No large chips. The spine of the dustwrapper is only slightly faded and browned. ***468 pages. 227mm x 155mm. ***Contents: I. Tradition and the Individual Talent (1917), The function of Criticism (1923); II. "Rhetoric" and Poetic Drama (1919), A Dialogue on Dramatic Poetry (1928), Euripides and Professor Murray (1918), Seneca in Elizabethan Translation (1927); III. Four Elizabethan Dramatists (1924), Christopher Marlowe (1918), Shakespeare and the stoicism of Seneca (1927), Hamlet (1919), Ben Jonson (1919), Thomas Middleton (1927), Thomas Heywood (1931), Cyril Tourneur (1931), John Ford (1932), Philip Massinger (1920), John Marston (1934); IV. Dante (1929); V. The Metaphysical Poets (1921), Andrew Marvell (1921), John Dryden (1922), William Blake (1920), Swinburne as poet (1920); VI. Lancelot Andrewes (1926), John Bramhall (1927), Thoughts after Lambeth (1931); VII. Baudelaire (1930), Arnold and Pater (1930), Francis Herbert Bradley (1926), Marie Lloyd (1923), Wilkie Collins and Dickens (1927), The Humanism of Irving Babbitt (1927), Second Thoughts about Humanism (1929), Charles Whibley (1931). ***'Prose which is a masterly example of the expository style--these essays contain the most valuable contributions to criticism of our day. Here is a book written with a profundity of knowledge, sensibility, and intellect, in a style which combines the virtues of urbanity, clarity, strength and, not the least, of humour.' - Bonamy Dobrée in the Listener (Review taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper). ***A very nice copy of the second printing of the second edition, published during the Second World War, in very good condition. This edition was revised and enlarged from the original 1932 edition. Copies of this wartime printing in presentable and collectable condition in their original pre-war dustwrappers are very scarce now. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 8055z
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