Buy this book on-line LYTTON STRACHEY : Eminent VictoriansChatto & Windus, London, 1918
First Edition (first printing). 8vo. xiii, 309pp. Black cloth with a slightly tanned and chipped paper spine label. With a tissue-protected frontispiece and five plates. Top edge gilt. The cloth marked, and a little rubbed, bumped, scuffed and frayed at several extremities. Some fox spotting throughout. Former owner bookplate to the front pastedown. About of a good copy of Strachey's influential and at times gently scathing biography of Cardinal Manning, Dr. Thomas Arnold, General Charles Gordon, and Florence Nightingale (really only the latter emerges with her reputation enhanced). No dust wrapper. Uncommon in the first edition state, although this is perhaps not the nicest example.. Book. Book Condition: Good. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: No Jacket Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of LYTTON STRACHEY : Eminent Victorians. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including libri antichi, livres rares, atlases, libri rari and livres anciens. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |