By Robert Chambers
London   W and R Chambers
10" by 7" 816pp; 816pp
A beautifully bound copy of this popular nineteenth century reference work.
By Robert Chambers

1882 Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature A History, Critical and Biographical, of British Authors with Specimens of their Writings. Originally edited by Robert Chambers, LL.D. In Two Volumes.

London   W and R Chambers
10" by 7" 816pp; 816pp
A beautifully bound copy of this popular nineteenth century reference work.
£252.99
: 15kgs / : LTH13-E-3

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Fine Binding, Illustrated, Leather Binding

Illustrated throughout, bound in a very attractive dark green calf leather, smart red spine labels and gilt detail. Robert Chambers (1802 – 1871), Scottish author and publisher, was born in Peebles. Among the other numerous works of his are the Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen (4 vols., Glasgow, 1832–1835), the Cyclopaedia of English Literature (1844), the Life and Works of Robert Burns (4 vols., 1851), Ancient Sea Margins (1848), the Domestic Annals of Scotland (1859–1861) and the Book of Days (2 vols., 1862–1864). The Cyclopaedia of English Literature contains a series of admirably selected extracts from the best authors of every period, "set in a biographical and critical history of the literature itself." For the Life of Burns he made diligent and laborious original investigations, gathering many hitherto unrecorded facts from the poet's sister, Mrs Begg, to whose benefit the whole profits of the work were generously devoted.

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In half calf bindings with cloth covered boards. Externally, very smart with mild wear to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean.

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