Specimens of English Prose Style From Malory to Macaulay by Saintsbury, George - 1885

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

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London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co, 1885. Very Good. London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1885. Limited Large Paper Edition, numbered 43 of 50 copies and signed "Charles Whittingham & Co." (the Chiswick Press). Bound by J.P. Gray and Son, Cambridge, with binder stamp at bottom of front pastedown. Bookplate of Percy Lancelot Babington, Esquire of Cossington in County Leicester on front pastedown. Large octavo; xlvi, 367pp. Brown paper-covered boards with blue morocco spine and corners. Gilt lettering to spine and gilt to top page edges. Boards are square with light bumping to corners, light scuffing down joints, and some general scratches and smudges to paper. Front and back boards open easily but binding is secure. Some offsetting on front free endpaper of bookplate opposite, else pages unmarked. Percy Lancelot Babington (1877-1950) was a lecturer in literature at Cambridge and final heir of the Cossington Estate. He is noted now for his interest in the small, clandestine, and variously aristocratic… Read More

London: Kegan Paul, Tranch & Co, 1885. Limited edition. Hardcover. Fine. [2], xlvi, 367, [1] pp. (8vo) 24.8x16.3 cm (9¾x6½"), three-quarter gilt-ruled brown levant morocco & cloth, spine tooled & lettered in gilt, raised bands, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt; bound by Zaehnsdorf. A fine copy with only a trace of shelfwear. No. 49 of 50 large paper copies, printed at the Chiswick Press. A handsomely printed and bound work, selected and annotated with an introductory essay by George Saintsbury. Signed in ink on the limitation page, Charles Whittingham & Co., proprietors of the Chiswick Press. The first selection is form Malory: The Death of Lancelot.