Some XVIII Century Men of Letters. Biographical Essays By the Rev. Whitwell Elwin Sometime Editor of the Quarterly Review with a Memoir. Edited By His Son Warwick Elwin - 2 Volumes - Malcolm Elwin's Copy of This Set

The Rev. Whitwell Elwin. Edited By His Son Warwick Elwin - Malcolm Elwin's Copy of This Book

Published by John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1902

About this Item

1902 First Edition - 2 Volumes. Size large octavo, 508 and 532 pages. Green cloth with gilt and white decoration and gilt titles to the front covers, gilt titles and decoration to the spines. Condition good, corners and edges rubbed, spines and cover edges sunned, hinges weak, previous owner's name to front end-papers, spots to first and last few pages else contents clean. These volumes were Biographer and Critic Malcolm Elwin's own personal copy of the book written by his grandfather and edited by his father, loosely inserted in volume I is the invoice from B. H. Blackwell bookshop in Oxford from when he purchased them in 1932.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Some XVIII Century Men of Letters. Biographical Essays By the Rev. Whitwell Elwin Sometime Editor of the Quarterly Review with a Memoir. Edited By His Son Warwick Elwin - 2 Volumes - Malcolm Elwin's Copy of This Set
• Publisher: John Murray, Albemarle Street
• Publication Date: 1902
• Language: English
• Binding: Decorative Cloth
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Good