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Selected essays, 1884-1907 / by Augustine Birrell.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection PR4115 .A6 1908
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Birrell, Augustine, 1850-1933.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Genre:
- Advertisements -- England -- London -- 20th century.
- Essays.
- Penn Provenance:
- Curran, Stuart A. (honoree)
- Wittreich, Joseph Anthony (donor)
- Porter, J. (autograph)
- Physical Description:
- 383 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : portrait ; 16 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : T. Nelson & Sons, [not before 1908]
- Contents:
- Milton
- Dr. Johnson
- Edward Gibbon
- William Cowper
- John Wesley
- George Borrow
- Carlyle
- Robert Browning
- Cardinal Newman
- Matthew Arnold
- Walter Bagehot
- A rogue's memoirs
- The via media
- The muse of history
- Cambridge and the poets
- Is it possible to tell a good book from a bad one?
- The house of commons
- Book-buying
- Bookworms
- Confirmed readers
- First editions
- Old booksellers
- Itineraries
- Epitaphs
- Authors in court
- A connoisseur.
- Notes:
- Preface dated: Christmas Day, 1908.
- Bookseller's advertisements (Elliot Stock, London): P. [384].
- Local Notes:
- Milton Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Joseph A. Wittreich in honor of Stuart A. Curran.
- Penn Libraries copy has autograph ("J. Porter") on front pastedown; postcard with illustration ("Trial pull of a page of Milton's Lycidas, from Justa Eduardo King naufrago, 1638.") laid in.
- OCLC:
- 213828781
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