<p>Hardcover. Red cloth binding with black title on the spine.<em> We provide an in-depth photographic presentation of this item to stimulate your feeling and touch. More traditional book descriptions are immediately available For conditions please view our photographs. </em></p><p>A rare copy from the library gathered by the famous Cambridge Don computer scientist food and wine connoisseur Jack Arnold LANG. 1st edition. A fair to good copy. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 286 p. col. front. ports. 24 cm. Series: Eighteenth-century sources for the study of English literature ; Contents: Frances Abington née Barton 1737-1815.--Sarah Siddons née Kemble 1755-1831.--Mary Anne "Perdita" Robinson née Darby 1758-1800.--Dorothy Jordan née Bland 1761-1816. Subjects: Abington Mrs. Frances Barton 1737-1815. Siddons Sarah 1755-1831. Robinson Mary 1758-1800. Jordan Dorothy 1761-1816. Lewis Saul Benjamin pen name Lewis Melville ; 1874–1932 was an English author born into a Jewish family in London England and educated privately in England and Germany. From 1896 to 1901 he was known as an actor though part of his time even then was devoted to literature.</p> Hutchinson & Co. hardcover
<p>Brown calf spine and corners with tan cloth boards. Gilt lettering and tooling. Dimensions are for one volume. The First Gentlemen of Europe. Volumes I and II.</p><p><strong>A quite subjective view of the time</strong> <strong>Lewis Saul Benjamin</strong> pen name <strong>Lewis Melville</strong> 1874–1932 was an English author born into a Jewish family in London England and educated privately in England and Germany. From 1896 to 1901 he was known as an actor though part of his time even then was devoted to literature. His publications include:</p><ul><li><em>In the World of Mimes: A Theatrical Novel</em>1902</li><li><em>The Thackeray Country</em>1905</li><li><em>Victorian Novelists</em>1906</li><li><em>Bath under Beau Nash</em>1907</li><li><em>The Beau of the Regency</em>1908</li><li><em>William Makepeace Thackeray: A Biography</em>1909</li><li><em>The Life and Letters of Laurence Sterne</em>two volumes 1911; American edition 1912</li><li><em>The Life and Letters of William Cobbett</em>two volumes 1912; American edition 1913</li><li>An edition of Thackeray's works twenty volumes 1901–07</li></ul> Huchinson & Co. hardcover
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London: Constable & Co LTD 1931. First edition. Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 9" by 6". None. A very scarce collection of the papers of William Huskisson the first edition edited by Lewis Melville. The first edition of this very scarce work.The collected papers of William Huskisson with a note on his life.Huskisson was a statesman fanancier and politician. He was the first widely reported railway passenger casualty after he died being hit by a train in 1830.Edited by Lewis Melville. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally smart. Spine is very lightly faded. Minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine. Bookseller's label to the front paste down. Prior owner's ink inscription to the recto of the front endpaper. Front hinge is starting but firm. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good Indeed Constable & Co LTD hardcover
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