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    By Thomas Seccombe; W. Robertson Nicoll
    London   Hodder and Stoughton
    12" by 8" viii, [8], 240pp, [10] ; viii, 241-529pp
    An interesting historical of survey of English literature, from the invention of the printing press to the early twentieth century. With fifty one plates across two volumes
    By Thomas Seccombe; W. Robertson Nicoll

    1906 The Bookman Illustrated History of English Literature

    London   Hodder and Stoughton
    12" by 8" viii, [8], 240pp, [10] ; viii, 241-529pp
    An interesting historical of survey of English literature, from the invention of the printing press to the early twentieth century. With fifty one plates across two volumes
    £45.00
    : 4kgs / : 849N32
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    Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding

    Across two volumes, Thomas Seccombe offers a historical of survey of English literature from the invention of the printing press to the early twentieth century. With fifteen plates to volume I, and thirty six plates to volume II, collated and complete. The work opens with a chapter on the influence of William Caxton, who was the first English retailer of printed books after he introduced the printing press to England in 1476. Following this, Seccombe offers an biographical sketch of England's important writers accompanied by portrait of the author, or an image inspired by their work. With sections on Drama and Lyric, Satire, Memoir, and the Novel, Seccombe's uncomplicated and entertaining work explores the output and influence of writers such as Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Samuel Jonson, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

    Condition

    In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, generally sound. Lightly rubbed to the boards of Volume I, a little more so to Volume II. The cloth to Volume I is torn down the front joint and halfway down the rear joint. Rubbed to the spine, which is bumped with some closed tears to the head and tail. A little loss of cloth to the tail of volume II, with a tear at the front joint. Internally, firmly bound. Lightly foxed to the endpapers, but otherwise pages are clean. The opening pages of volume II are age toned.

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