Books and characters, French & English / by Lytton Strachey
1922, 1st Edition. London: Chatto & Windus. Near fine copy in the original cloth with paper-label to the spine. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #359753
Physical description: 5 preliminary leaves, 306 pages, 6 unnumbered leaves of plates: portraits; 23 cm. Contents: Racine -- Sir Thomas Browne -- Shakespeare's final period -- The lives of the poets -- Madame du Deffand -- Voltaire and England -- A dialogue -- Voltaire's tragedies -- Voltaire and Frederick the Great -- The Rousseau affair -- The poetry of Blake -- The last Elizabethan -- Henri Beyle -- Lady Hester Stanhope -- Mr. Creevey. Subjects: English literature History and criticism. French literature History and criticism. Authors, English; Biography. Authors, French; Biography.
Price: €30.00