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Hardcover, maroon cloth lettered in gold. Top edge gilt, 415 pages. Index. With an introduction by Horatio W. Seymour. First edition. A collection of over 60 essays, predominantly dealing with British nineteenth century Men [and women]-of-Letters, including Hazlitt, Lamb, Disraeli, Bulwer-Lytton, Ruskin, William Morris, Dickens, George Eliot, Wilkie Collins, Carlyle, Thackeray, et alia. Mild rubbing to cloth at spine, else a clean, square, unmarked copy. No previous ownership marks. Very good.