English Literature Its History and its Significance for the Life of the English Speaking World
by Long William J
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Vars, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Ginn & Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1945. Hardcover. Green hard boards with titles pannelled in balck on the cover and spine. An ex-library book, there is no pocket but stamps from the 'Department of National Defense Ottawa'. Wear to the spine ends and corners, rubbing tothe front cover title, tightly bound with a couple of pages with underlining. Frontispiece of Shakespeare, with black & white illustrations through the book. "This book which presents the whole splendid history of English literature from Anglo-Saxon times to the close of the Victorian Era has three specific aims. The first is to create or to encourage in every student the desire to read the best books and to know literature itself rather than what has been written about literature." ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 636 pages .
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- Seller
- Bytown Bookery (CA)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 5950
- Title
- English Literature Its History and its Significance for the Life of the English Speaking World
- Author
- Long William J
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- Ginn & Company
- Date Published
- 1945
- Keywords
- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh., Great Britain, Literary Collections
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature; Literary Citicism;
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Vars, Ontario
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...