RECENT ESSAYS.
Edited with introduction and brief notes for the use of students. Pp. viii+272, notes; cr. 8vo; red cloth, lettered and ruled in black, the boards a trifle sprung; dust wrapper, slightly soiled, edges and backstrip chipped and torn, with small surface graze (from removal of price sticker?) near centre of backstrip; endpapers offset, edges of leaves lightly foxed; Longmans, Green, and Co., London, 1923. First edition. *Essays by Richard Garnett, Hilaire Belloc, Max Beerbohm, Robert Louis Stevenson, H. W. Wells, W. B. Yeats, by G. K. Chesterton, a.o. The essays were selected 'so that the student could realise what the mental food of the everyday man of education is in England at the present time' [wrapper blurb]. Item #160957
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