Shelfmark
Iaa4.3.39
Author
Title
Books & characters : French & English / Lytton Strachey.
Varying form of title
Books and characters
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Chatto and Windus, 1929.
Physical description
[8], 264 p. ; 18 cm.
Series statement
(The Phoenix Library)
Note
Title-page verso: First published May 1922. Third printing October 1924. First issued in the Phoenix Library 1928, reprinted 1929.
Note
Additional [8] p. of publisher's advertisements at end.
Note
Dedication-page verso: "The following papers are reprinted by kind permission of the editors of the Independent review, the New quarterly, the Athenaeum, and the Edinburgh review. The 'Dialogue' is now printed for the first time, from a manuscript, apparently in the hand-writing of Voltaire and belonging to his English period.".
Note
Publisher's green cloth binding; gilt lettering and decoration on spine; blind-stamped publisher's device on upper cover.
Formatted contents note
Contents: Racine -- Sir Thomas Browne -- Shakespeare's final period -- The Lives of the poets -- Madame du Deffand -- Voltaire and England -- A dialogue -- Voltaire's tragedies -- Voltaire and Ferderick the Great -- The Rousseau affair -- The poetry of Blake -- The last Elizabethan [T.L. Beddoes] -- Henri Beyle -- Lady Hester Stanhope -- Mr. Creevey.
Provenance
Ms. initials: "DBS" [David Babington-Smith].
Provenance
Bookplate recording donation to Eton College by David Babington-Smith.
Provenance
Booklabel and ink stamp of Eton College Library.
Subject
Subject
English literature History and criticism Addresses, essays, lectures.
Added entry--name
Babington-Smith, David former owner.
Added entry--name
Chatto & Windus publisher.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B45633