Romantic Professions and Other Papers

JAMES, W.P.

Verlag: Elkin Mathews and John Lane, London, 1894

Beschreibung

First Edition. Large 12mo. Black fabric with stamped, gilt lettering to spine. One of 450 copies. Former owner plaque tipped inside front cover, "Adrian Knox." "Excerpt from Romantic Professions: And Other Papers. Countrywomen indulge a more fastidious fancy than their sisters in less democratic lands. It is lamentable, indeed, when you come to re?ect on it, how large a proportion Of useful and respectable callings falls under the ban Of romance. What poet or romancer ever made his first lover, for example, a bailiff or a beadle? Yet bailiffs and beadles are men and brothers. They may do their Often-times dangerous duty with the dash Of a Rupert or the cool courage Of a Cromwell, yet they are frankly impossible as heroes of romance. De Quincey makes a remark somewhere to the effect that one would not be inclined to think highly Of a man who, in the absence Of predisposing circumstances, deliberately and for the love Of the business decided to be a butcher Yet butchers are husbands and fathers, and have blood in their veins as well as on their aprons. As a matter Of statistics, I suppose hardly a day passes but some solicitor falls in love; yet no court Of love or literature will give him audience as a lover, or take cognizance of his pleadings. The breast of the stock." Good. Corners bumped and rubbed. Slight soiling to covers. Foxing to interior with sunning to page edges. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 33106

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Romantic Professions and Other Papers

Verlag: Elkin Mathews and John Lane, London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1894

Einband: Hardcover

Auflage: 1st Edition.