First American edition. Blindstamped blue-green cloth with spine lettered in gilt. 297 pp. A tight example, ownership signature front free endpaper, small spot of wear foot of spine. Internally mostly clean and bright but with scattered foxing to the title page and frist few and final few leaves. Thackeray's seven classic lectures on 18th century English humorists: Swift; Congreve and Addison; Steele; Prior, Gay and Pope; Hogarth, Smollett and Fielding; Sterne and Goldsmith; and the fnal lecture "Charity and Humor". Seller Inventory # E20651

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Title: The English Humorists of the Eighteenth ...

Publisher: Harper & Bros, New York

Publication Date: 1854

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Edition: First American edition.

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