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A history of English literature / by Lafcadio Hearn ; edited by R. Tanabe, T. Ochiai & I. Nishizaki.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection PR83 .H4 1941 Mausner copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hearn, Lafcadio, 1850-1904.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- American literature--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Penn Provenance:
- Mausner, Milton A., Estate of (donor) (Mausner Collection copy)
- Mausner, Milton A., 1918-2012 (former owner) (Mausner Collection copy)
- Fraser, Alan (autograph) (Mausner Collection copy)
- Charles E. Tuttle Co. (label) (Mausner Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- x, 815 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, portrait, facsimile ; 19 cm
- Edition:
- Fifth revised edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Tokyo : Hokuseido Press, 1941.
- Notes:
- Lectures taken down by Hearn's students at the time of their delivery, September, 1900 to March, 1903, and given here without any revision by Hearn himself. This edition emended by Professor Nishizaki and Professor A. Stanton Whitfield. Cf. preface, and publisher's note.
- Colophon in Japanese mounted on leaf at end.
- In slip case.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Mausner Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2012 by the estate of Milton A. Mausner.
- Mausner Collection copy has 20th-century ms. gift inscription ("Nishi San from her friend Alan Fraser 1959") on front free endpaper; bookseller's label of C.E. Tuttle with typescript title and price affixed to back pastedown.
- Mausner Collection copy: slip case and dust jacket retained.
- OCLC:
- 259074
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