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Four Generations of a Literary Family: The Hazlitts in England, Ireland & America, Their friends & Their Fortunes 1725-1896. Two volumes.
by HAZLITT, W. Carew, with portraits reproduced from miniatures by John Hazlitt
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, United States
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About This Item
London and New York: George Redway, 1897 First edition, complete in two volumes. 8vo, xlvi, 294, [2]; 379 pp, with 5 portraits Publisher's gilt-lettered green cloth.
Moderately soiled, brief wear mostly at spine extremities, internally toned & occasionally foxed, still very good.
"Among literary people, it seldom, I think, occurs that such a continuity of association and sympathy is found, as renders one family the storehouse and guardian of facts about individuals, and about places identified with them, during a space of years extending back from the present day to the second quarter of the eighteenth century" ~William Carew Hazlitt, from the preface.
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- Bookseller
- Citation Books, ABAA/ ILAB
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1136
- Title
- Four Generations of a Literary Family: The Hazlitts in England, Ireland & America, Their friends & Their Fortunes 1725-1896. Two volumes.
- Author
- HAZLITT, W. Carew, with portraits reproduced from miniatures by John Hazlitt
- Illustrator
- John Hazlitt
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- George Redway
- Place of Publication
- London and New York
- Date Published
- 1897
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Literature, Bibliography, Authors, Ireland
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature, Fiction, Poetry; Books about Books;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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