Catalogue Number: 03629

RRP: AU$45.00         Weight in grams:3000 See Ordering Information.

The Outline of Literature Vol I & II

John Drinkwater

London: George Newnes, 1922 Buckram Good/No Jacket 4to 

In original green buckram with gilt titles. Some scuffs and marks and wear to the corners and edges. Spines a bit tanned.

With a previous owners name on the flyleaf dated 1923.

Chapters include: The first books in the world; Homer; Bible; Sacred books of the east; Greek Myth; Greece and Rome; The middles Ages; Renaissance; Shakespeare; Milton etc to Dr Johnson and his circle in volume I. The Edward Gibbon, Burns, Goethe, Wordsworth, Essayists, yron, Shelley, Keats, Scott, Dumas, Victor Hugo. Dickens, and then the "modern" writers - Jack London, Anatole france, Maxim Gorki.. 12 colour plates in each volume

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