Eighteenth Century Essays
London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1882. First edition thus. Hardcover. 12mo. [5], vi-xxiii, [2], 2-284 pp. Later polished red sheep with gold borders and gold-tooled borders on the boards, gold decorations to the turn-ins, spine in six compartments with gold decorations and a brown morocco label lettered in gold; all edges gilt. Marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Bound by Riviere & Son. Title page printed in red and black. Illustrated with a frontispiece. Essays selected and annotated by Austin Dobson, taken and reprinted from The Spectator and The Tattler, famous eighteenth-century literary magazines. Near Fine. Item #000012737
Minor rubbing to the extremities, a 1926 name on the first blank leaf.
Price: $125.00