Saintsbury (George) Prefaces and Essays
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London, Macmillan, 1933.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, publisher’s price label of 5s net to upper panel and spine.
George Saintsbury (1845-1933) was one of the most prolific and influential literary critics of the late Victorian and Edwardian periods, holding the chair of English Literature at Edinburgh from 1895 to 1915.
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