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Tokyo [1954], Hokuseido. Maroon cloth, very good, 815p., very firm & solid, contents brightly clean, no issues, 13 x 18.5 cm., lightly bumped upper corners, else clean, top edge black, other edges trimmed, ribbon book mark. . *** **** *** . . . ONE OF HEARN'S MOST MONUMENTAL WORKS . . . COVERING THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE . . . EDITED BY HEARN'S STAR JAPANESE STUDENTS . * THE FIRST EDITION: The complete 2 volume red cloth set, 1927, plus the gray stiff wrappers SUPPLEMENT TO A HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE, [From Ben Jonson to Restoration Drama], undated also pubished Hokuseido press. . The supplement is seldom found, but competes the set of 3 volumes. This supplement is cited in volume 1, at the end of the list of contents It does not point out that this is a separate publication, not found in the 2 cloth bound volumes. . THE CONTENTS: . Vol.1: First period-introductory remarks, to drama, from the Beginning to the end of the 18th century. . Vol.2: 19th century literature, Pre-Victorian Poets to Great Victorian prose outside of fiction + criticism. . Vol.3: Supplement to a History of English Literature. . Covering early work, Norman conquest, Fifteenth century, Elizabethan literature, the XVII, XVIII the century, Age of Dr. Johnson, 19th century, Pre-Victorian poets & prose, the Victorian Era & its fiction, Great Victorian prose, notes on American literature. . *** This title came in two different editions, size and bindings. . a. The FIRST EDITION, 1927, 2 full red pebbled cloth with gold stamped spines & front cover Heron logo that Hearn used, 2 illustrated frontispieces photo of Hearn plua atiff gray wrappers suppement volume. . Other, later editions: b. A one volume edition, colors, dates vary. . Copies vary, please carefully read the copy descriptions, condition, notes prior to purchasing . *** ADDITIONAL NOTES ABOUT SPECIFIC COPIES & THEIR CONDITION: . Copy 2 the FIRST EDITION, 1927, is in full pebbled cloth, gold stamped spine titles and Heron on front cover, top edge gilt, a pristine example with contents brilliantly clean. This set of 3 volumes are in the original dust jackets in Mylar protector. Contained in two original boxes, with white spine labels, titles printed in black, as usual they show typical signs of minimal wear on edges, corners, nevertheless firmly intact. . This set also contains a 3rd volume, bound in gray stiff wrappers, with title: SUPPLEMENT TO A HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE BY LAFCADIO HEARN, VOL. 1 [From Ben Jonson to Restoration Drama], 16.8 x 25.5 cm., published by the Hokuseido Press, 60 pages, very good, clean, solid, with a bit of spine paper missing at head/tail, else firm and clean, occasional feint neat pencil marginalia, not distracting. SELDOM FOUND WITH THE ORIGINAL FIRST 2 VOLUMES. After the publisher realized this information was lacking in the set, this item was published and put together with the first 2 volumes. A RARITY ! . *** Color photos are posted to our website. . *** REFERENCES: . BAL 8005, is wrong citing the date as 1929, they could not read the Japanese colophon. It was of course Hokuseido Press, 1927. * Perkins, pp.111-117, who is correct with the First Edition in 1927, other editions have later dates. . *.
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