MORE INVECTIVE.
Edited with critical and historical comments by Hugh Kingsmill. Pp. xii+206(last blank); cr. 8vo; navy cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, edges of boards a trifle rubbed; dust wrapper, slightly soiled and foxed, edges chipped and split, the backstrip bornwed and slighlty dmaps tained, with a few small chips and tears; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, an earlier owner's name in ink on upper free endpaper, hinge tender towards end, a little light foxing and offsetting; Eyre & Spottiswoode, London, 1930. First edition. *With publisher's order card loosely inserted. Hugh Kingsmill's second anthology of examples of English invective, including selections from Shakespeare, King James I, Oliver Cromwell, Samuel Johnson, Ouida, Amanda Ros, Aldous Huxley, George Bernard Shaw, and poets such as Byron, Shelley, Wordsworth and Swinburne. Item #168125
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