Popular Education in France: With Notices of That of Holland and Switzerland

London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts Co, 1861. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First separate edition. Presentation copy with the ink inscription in the publisher’s hand “With the Author’s Compliments” at the head of the half-title. Above and below that is a much later dedication to Lionel Trilling and another person. A very nice association between two centuries of literary critics across the Atlantic. Trilling, in addition to being a writer and educator, was one of the most important literary critics of the 20th Century. Arnold is known as the preeminent Victorian-era literary and cultural critic.

l, [2], 294, 24 ads pp. Original green cloth lettered in gilt. About Very Good with wear at head and split starting down back of spine, light edge wear, bumped corners, front hinge split but holding.