Scrutiny: A Retrospect by Leavis, F. R - 1963

Cambridge University Press, 1963. Paperback. Acceptable. 1963. No Edition Remarks. 224 pages. Blue paperback. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Pencil inscription to reverse of front cover. Thumb-marking present. Pulling to covers. Binding remains firm. Paper covers have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Visible curling to corners. Some tanning to spine and edges. Tearing and scuffing to edges.

Paperback. 1963. 24pp card covers, Cambridge University Press 1963. Very good. .

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. As New with no dust jacket. 2008. First Edition Thus. Original Wrappers. 0521067987 . 221 pages. Stamped Damaged on verso title page. Otherwise new. ; Paperback; Octavo; Scrutiny was first issued quarterly from Cambridge between 1932 and 1953, the principal editor throughout being Dr Leavis. It is now recognized as a formative influence on English intellectual and cultural life worthy to rank with the great reviews of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This reissue is of the 1963 combined set, including a final volume containing an important Retrospect by Dr Leavis and a substantial analytical index. Scrutiny offers an almost complete critical history of English literature from Chaucer to the mid-twentieth century. Medieval literature, Shakespeare, the seventeenth-century poets, Pope, Dryden, Johnson, the great romantics, the Victorians, and nearly all the important modern writers are seriously examined. Many of the articles have become… Read More

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New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; Scrutiny was first issued quarterly from Cambridge between 1932 and 1953, the principal editor throughout being Dr Leavis. It is now recognized as a formative influence on English intellectual and cultural life worthy to rank with the g

New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; Scrutiny was first issued quarterly from Cambridge between 1932 and 1953, the principal editor throughout being Dr Leavis. It is now recognized as a formative influence on English intellectual and cultural life worthy to rank with the g

New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; Scrutiny was first issued quarterly from Cambridge between 1932 and 1953, the principal editor throughout being Dr Leavis. It is now recognized as a formative influence on English intellectual and cultural life worthy to rank with the g

New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; Scrutiny was first issued quarterly from Cambridge between 1932 and 1953, the principal editor throughout being Dr Leavis. It is now recognized as a formative influence on English intellectual and cultural life worthy to rank with the g

New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; Scrutiny was first issued quarterly from Cambridge between 1932 and 1953, the principal editor throughout being Dr Leavis. It is now recognized as a formative influence on English intellectual and cultural life worthy to rank with the g