H M Lynd (29 results)

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,900grams, ISBN.

Condition: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,850grams, ISBN.…

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1929. Constable & Company. Hardback. Book - Good, ex-lib, rebound in library binding.

From the papers of Sylvia and Robert Lynd. Four copies traced: National Library of Ireland, Trinity College Dublin, the British Library and Oxford University. BL identifies the author as 'Thomas T. Shaw'; another source states 'Thomas J. Shaw'. 47pp, 8vo. In green printed wraps. Stapled. Lightly aged, in worn wraps, and with slight blooming at head of first few leaves. The author goes about the 'self-imposed task' of his 'little brochure' with copious statistical evidence, including an eight-page appendix of tables. He concludes: 'As I have worked unaided and unassisted I may have made mistakes, but I have felt impelled to publish this little work in my country's interest as, after an examination of the various returns, I felt quite sure that the basis on which the Treasury calculations relating to Ireland were being made in many respects were not prepared in a manner to attribute to Ireland the revenue really and properly attributable to it.' There is a discussion of 'home-made spirits', and it may be that the author is the Thomas James Shaw, 'managing partner in the firm of Joseph Shaw and Son, Mullingar', who gave evidence to a royal commission in 1908.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Seven respected biographies on the the British intellectual titan, including commemorative essays, his morals, his friends and his early biographers. Seven respected works on the prolific British intellectual of the eighteenth century Samuel Johnson, including literary criticism and biographies that offer us great insight into the individual. Seven volumes, all in the publisher's original cloth. All first editions except Club Papers, published between 1895-1971.Doctor Johnson and the Fair Sex, an intriguing biography of Samuel Johnson's relationships with notable women across his life, written by W.H. Craig. Contains sixteen illustrated portraits of figures within Johnson's life, including a frontispiece of Johnson. Collated complete. (Sampson Low, Marston and Company, 1895).Johnson Club Papers, commemorative essays written by admirers from the Johnson Club, first founded one hundred years after his death, written by various authors including George Birkbeck Hill and Arthur Wollaston Hutton. Contains seventeen illustrated plates, including a frontispiece of Johnson. Collated complete. (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1899).Contemporary Criticisms of Dr. Samuel Johnson, literary criticisms of Samuel Johnson's works from the early twentieth century, edited and compiled by John Ker Spittal. Contains a frontispiece of Joshua Reynold's iconic portrait of Johnson. (E.P. Dutton and Company, 1923).Johnson The Essayist: His Opinions on Men, Morals and Manners, highlighting Johnson's perspective, written by O.F. Christie, author of England in the Eighteenth Century: Essays in Verse. (George H. Doran Company, 1924).Dr. Johnson and Company, an entertaining delve into those that knew Johnson and how they saw him, written by Irish writer and essayist Robert Lynd. Contains a frontispiece of a scene from Johnson's life, when Goldsmith is arrested by his landlady for debt. (Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1928).The Conversations of Dr. Johnson: Selected from the 'Life' by James Boswell, a record of the documented conversations Johnson had with various figures, edited by R.W. Postgate. (Vanguard Press, 1930).Samuel Johnson's Early Biographers, a scholarly study into Samuel Johnson, his rivalries, and his biographers that lived during his lifetime, written by Robert E. Kelley and O.M. Brack Jr. Contains a frontispiece, and five full-page illustrations. Collated complete. (University of Iowa Press, 1971). In the publisher's original cloth. Externally, very smart, with the rare small mark to Spittal, Club, and Lynd. Slight bumping to the heads and tail of the spines, and to the extremities, except Biographers which is in lovely condition. Slight fading to spines of Lynd, Essayist, Club and Spittal, also to extremities of Lynd. Slight rubbing to joints of Craig, Club and Postgate, with signs of rubbing to spine label of Essayist. End papers are clean, with the rare small mark to Craig, Essayist and Lynd, with very faint offsetting to Essayist. Internally, Essayist, Biographers, Craig and Spittal are firmly bound, with Lynd having slight wear to hinge between leaves pp.24-25, Postgate to hinge between leaves xvi-xvii, and Papers between plate and p.193, with title leaf loose. Pages are bright and clean, with the occasional age toning and the faint odd spot to first leaves of Essayist. Very Good. Unknown; Various; Sir Joshua Reynolds; None; Unknown; None; Various (illustrator). book. …

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