Item #31881 Prose Masterpieces from Modern Essayists. Comprising twelve unabridged essays by Irving, Lamb, De Quincey, Emerson, Arnold, Morley, Lowell, Carlyle, Macaulay, Froude, Freeman and Gladstone. ESSAYS.

Prose Masterpieces from Modern Essayists. Comprising twelve unabridged essays by Irving, Lamb, De Quincey, Emerson, Arnold, Morley, Lowell, Carlyle, Macaulay, Froude, Freeman and Gladstone.

London: Bickers and Son, 1886. Second edition, 8vo, (x), 395, (1), 4 advertisement pp. 12 portrait plates, being tipped in photographs, prize label of the Southfield Institution, Auchtermuchty. Original gilt decorated cloth with bevelled edges, a.e.g., one small mark otherwise a handsome copy. The photographs including 6 woodburytypes by the London firm Elliott & Fry, as well as one each by the London Stereoscopic Company and William Frear of Ithaca, NY. Item #31881

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