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The English Essayists: A comprehensive selection from the works of the great essayists from Lord Bacon to John Ruskin
by Robert Cochrane (compiler)
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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Farningham, Kent, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Edinburgh: W.P.Nimmo, Hay & Mitchell, 1897 Specimens of many different styles of thinking and expression will here be found, from the didactic style of Bacon, Addison, Johnson, or Foster, to the playful humour of Lamb, the lucid and correct journalistic prose of Jeffrey or Hugh Miller, the definite and precise portraiture of Macaulay, the strength and originality of Carlyle, and the eloquent and descriptive writing of John Ruskin.
viii, 536pp. Remarkably clean throughout.
Prize binding by Relfe of London.
Nominal fade to spine and top edge front and back
Book size 240x160mm
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- Bookseller
- Wadard Books PBFA
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 25459
- Title
- The English Essayists: A comprehensive selection from the works of the great essayists from Lord Bacon to John Ruskin
- Author
- Robert Cochrane (compiler)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- W.P.Nimmo, Hay & Mitchell
- Place of Publication
- Edinburgh
- Date Published
- 1897
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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Farningham, Kent
About Wadard Books PBFA
The shop of Wadard Books is located in a listed 17th century timber framed building in the historic Kentish village of Farningham. The business is named after Wadard, one of Farningham's Domesday landlords, a henchman of Bishop Odo and featured on the Bayeaux tapestry.
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