HOMAGE TO JOHN DRYDEN THREE ESSAYS ON POETRY OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. THE HOGARTH ESSAYS, NO. IV by ELIOT, T. S - 1924

London: The Hogarth Press. Good+. 1927. Softcover. Printed wrappers with glassine overlay. 2nd impression. Lightly toned. Glassine has losses/toning/splits. Some spine breaks. Few very minor pencil marks in text. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 46 pages .

The Hogarth Press, 'Hogarth Essays' series, London, 1924. Book. Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing), of which circa 2,000 copies were printed. Slim 8vo. 46pp. Card wrappers featuring a pictorial series design by Vanessa Bell. The wrappers a little marked, toned and soiled, with some chipping to the spine. A good copy, really crisp internally. Essays on Dryden, Marvell and The Metaphysical Poets, preceded by a one-page preface by the author. The fourth volume of the Hogarth Essays series, and now one of the scarcer numbers. Gallup A7 / Woolmer 43..

London: The Hogarth Press, 1927. ~Original cream paper covers, slightly browned. Design in black to front cover. With scarce original dustwrapper: Italian-made paper printed with geometric design in orange. Dustwrapper chipped, much faded, and almost entirely cracked at spine, but neatly reinforced at spine with archive tape. The last of the Hogarth Essays series to have Vanessa Bell's design of a woman reading to cover. Pencil owner's signature of M. G. Lloyd Thomas: Mary Gwyneth Lloyd Thomas (1899-1978), literary scholar, Fellow and Director of Studies in English at Girton, Cambridge, and later Headmistress of Channing School, Highgate. A few pencil scholarly annotations in the same hand. This volume, first published by the Hogarth Press in 1924 (this is the second impression), draws together three essays published in the Times Literary Supplement in 1921. The 1924 collection had an immediate impact: F. R. Leavis wrote that '(I)t was with the publication in this form of those essays (the… Read More