An English garner : Critical essays and literary fragments / with an introd. by J. Churton Collins. [Rearranged and classified under the general editorial supervision of Mr. Thomas Seccombe]

Collins, John Churton

1903, First Edition. Westminster : Archibald Constable. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Item #436745

Contents; Extract from Thomas Wilson's Art of rhetoric, 1554 -- Sir Philip Sidney's Letter to his brother Robert, 1580 -- Extract from Francis Mere's Palladis Tamia, 1596 -- Dryden's Dedicatory epistle to the rival ladies, 1664 -- Sir Robert Howard's Preface to four new plays, 1665 -- Dryden's Essay of dramatic poesy, 1668 -- Extract from Thomas Ellwood's History of himself, describing his relations with Milton, 1713 -- Bishop Copleston's Advice to a young reviewer, 1807 -- The Bickerstaff and Partridge tracts, 1708 -- Gay's Present state of wit, 1711 -- Tickell's Life of Addison, 1721 -- Steele's Dedicatory epistle to Congreve, 1722 -- Extract from Chamberlayne's Angliae notitia, 1669 -- Eachard's Grounds and occasions of the contempt of the clergy and of religion, 1670 -- Bickerstaff's Miseries of the domestic chaplain, 1710 -- Franklin's Poor Richard Improved, 1757. Subjects; English literature History and criticism.

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