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Studies of a Biographer
Leslie Stephen
1910
Duckworth & Co. : London
7.5" by 5.5"
(7), 267; (7), 284; (7), 285, (2); (7), 279pp.
SUMMARY
A complete four volume set of this collection of essays on biography from the father of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell.
Original Binding,Publishers Original Binding
Overall Condition: Very Good Indeed
This book weighs2 KG when packed
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DESCRIPTION
Four volumes.
A collection of essays on biography, including: national biography, Wordsworths youth, the importation of German, life of Tennyson, the Browning letters, in praise of walking, Shakespeare as a man, and the cosmopolitan spirit in literature.
Written by Leslie Stephen, an English author, critic, historian, biographer, mountaineer, and an early human activist. He was the father of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell.
CONDITION
In the original blue cloth binding. Externally, very smart with light shelf wear to the extremities only. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with light age toning to the end papers.
Overall Condition: Very Good Indeed
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Overall Condition
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