English Literature - Its History And Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World - a Text Book for Schools
by William J. Long PH.D. (Heidelberg)
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
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Burlington, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Ginn and Company, 1909. Hardcover. Very Good. pp.582 with index clean tight copy with tanning to text pages b/w plate map of Literary England. picture of Canterbury Pilgrims Presents the history of English Literature from Anglo-Saxon times to the close of the Victorian Era.green cloth covers with gold gilt title on spine slightly cocked cup-stain on back cover, slight bumping to corners, crimping to top/bottom of sunned spine, slight shelfwear to board extremites Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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- Title
- English Literature - Its History And Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World - a Text Book for Schools
- Author
- William J. Long PH.D. (Heidelberg)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Ginn and Company
- Date Published
- 1909
- Bookseller catalogs
- LITERATURE; ENGLAND;
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- Gilt
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- Sunned
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