Davis Horace Editor (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: VG+. 1st Edition. Hardback in Very Good+ condition with Very Good+ dust jacket. . Monthly Review Press Classic Titles. 8.50 X 5.50 X 0.90 inches. 320 pages. Review copy with review copy slip laid in. Ink ownership inscription. . * Quick Shipping * All Books Mailed in Boxes * Free Tracking Provided *.

1958, 1st printing. (Hardcover) Very good, no dust jacket. 165pp. Map, notes, glossary, index. The spine is faded, the bottom corner is lightly bumped and there is a previous owner's name in ink on the front fixed endpaper. "In 1787 John Fenn, a Norfolk antiquarian, published under the title Original Letters, Written during the Reigns of Henry VI. Edward IV. And Richard III. By various Persons of Rank or Consequence a selection from a large number of manuscripts in his possession. They had come into his hands, through several intermediate owners, from the estate of William Paston, second Earl of Yarmouth, who died in 1732 and with whom the main Paston line became extinct" - from the introduction. Letters of John Paston & Margaret Paston. Book about Paston Family. Contributors include Horace Walpole, Virginia Woolf. Introduction and commentary by Norman Davis. (History--England, History--England, Literary Criticism).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. 388 pp. Original dark gray leather covers w/ titles in gilt. Three raised bands on spine. Binding very bright and clean. All edges gilt w/ marbled endpapers. #1551 of 3000 copies. Illust. w/ b/w photos. Contents very nice.