1st edition, 1st printing. viii, 330pp. Green cloth-covered boards, gilt-stamped titles on spine. Top edge sprayed green. 8vo. Cloth a little tired, gently pushed at spine ends. Top edge dust dulled. Internally a hint of toning on pages, with some faint spotting on endpapers else neat, clean and tight. In its original dust wrapper, worn, rubbed and chipped all round edges, some creasing and chapping on verso with small loss at both spine ends.
A collection of critical literary essays on concerning writers such as Hazlitt, Goldsmith, Fielding, Yeats, Kipling etc., on the features and developments of literary history and round up on the practice and value of literary criticism and reasons for reading.
