360pp. Quarter-bound in red leather under marbled paper-covered boards; gilt titles on spine. 24mo. Loss to spine ends, heavy wear, loss and tears to leather; board edges and corners rubbed, wear to boards with paper worn through. Moderate soiling to text block edges. Endpapers tanned and starting to fox. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. Front hinge cracked and stained, volume loose. Internally neat, clean and bright barring occasional small pencilled markings. This little book concerns the principal English writers since the time of Chaucer to the end of the nineteenth century.
