1st edition. xii, 356pp. In brown cloth-covered boards with gilt titles on spine. 8vo. Boards very slightly rounded at spine tips. Text block edges a little spotted and dusty. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original dust jacket, lightly bumped at edges. A major reinterpretation of the development of European literary theory, a wide-ranging study which offers a new approach to ways of things about man's work in general. It amounts to a history of the idea of convention, the roles it played in the formative stages of English and Continental literary theory and the development of modern thought.
