Item #205831 Lectures on the English Comic Writers,; Delivered at the Surrey Institution, with: POLITICAL ESSAYS, with Sketches of Public Characters. William Hazlitt.

Lectures on the English Comic Writers,; Delivered at the Surrey Institution, with: POLITICAL ESSAYS, with Sketches of Public Characters.

London: Taylor and Hessey; William Hone, 1819. First editions. Two vols., 8vos, 343pp, 439pp, without half-titles; uniformly bound in three-quarter calf gilt with marbled boards, spines tooled with floral emblems in compartments with red and brown leather labels. Bookplates; edge of first title page slightly toned; few scattered spots; nice, bright copies. Item #205831

A handsome set from the library of Harold Jefferson Coolidge, American lawyer and prominent Boston Brahmin.

Price: $495.00

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