A Treasury of English Prose
1st edition. 254pp. In decorated cloth-covered boards with blue lettering front and spine (boards are strong, square and straightly; gently rubbed at corners and spine ends, soiled and faded in margins). Internally neat and clean, barring some mild toning on endpapers. A companion volume to the more common Treasury of English Verse, a selection of extracts of English prose designed to stimulate the interest of students of English literature, drawing extensively on contemporary writers.