Literary sessions. / By Eric Partridge.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Partridge, Eric, 1894-1979.

Contributor:

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

English Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Benington books ; no. 6.

Benington books ; no. 6

Language:

English

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

201 pages, 9 unnumbered pages ; 23 cm.

Manufacture:

Aylesbury : Printed by Hazell, Watson & Viney, Ltd.

Place of Publication:

London : Eric Partridge Ltd. at The Scholartis Press, Thirty Museum Street, 1932.

Contents:

Preface

General: A note on the origin of drama; Fiction and the public; Bestsellers in fiction; The censorship of books; European literary criticism since 1798

Five writers of the Nineteenth century: John Corry; Robert Eyres Landor; R. H. Horne; Mrs. Archer Clive; Ambrose Bierce

On the fringe of medicine: Scurvy; Opium, Quacks and quackery; Poisons in the Age of Anne; The eighteenth-century patient.

Notes:

Series from half-title page.

"Limited to 650 copies, of which 600 are for sale. Of the copies for sale, 25 are numbered and signed.

Publisher's advertisements: [8] p. at end.

Twelve of the fifteen essays have been reprinted from various sources.--Cf. Preface.

Bound in blue cloth with gold lettering on spine.

OCLC:

4075277