first edition Hardcover
1922 · London
by STRACHEY, Lytton
London: Chatto & Windus, 1922. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. 306pp. Illustrated with plates. Green buckram with printed paper spine label, an extra spine label tipped in rear of book as issued. Endpapers with modest offsetting, some pages slightly foxed, spine a bit sunned with ends bumped, very good lacking the scarce dust jacket. Editor and author George Whitney Martin's copy with his named inked on the front fly. Fourteen essays including Racine, Sir Thomas Browne, Shakespeare's Final Period, The Lives of the Poets, Madame du Deffand, Voltaire and England and more. (Inventory #: 587085)