Seven Essays by Sampson, George - 1947

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1947. Cloth. Good/Good. Bound in green cloth with gilt titling. In good+ condition. Patchy fading to cloth colour on covers, a few minor markings internally, generally clean, binding is very good. In good dust jacket, a bit grubby with some wear to edges. 232 pages. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Cambridge University Press. Used - Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. Writing inside. Dust jacket is Slightly dampstained. Dust jacket has clipped corner.

Cambridge: At the University Press, 1947. Hardcover. Good. First edition. 232pp. Ex-library with the usual markings, lacking the front fly, spine tanned and cocked with ends fraying, a good only copy lacking the dustwrapper. Essays.

Great Britain: Cambridge at the University Press. Good/Good. 1947. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Harback Hardback. Marks to cloth. Wear and a couple of tears to edge of D/J. Slight foxing to D/J. Price clipped. The author's constant topics in these seven chapters are literature, education and music, about all of which he feels deeply and writes urgently, though with a light touch. He is awatre of the character of the age upon which we have entered, and is jealous to bring into it the threatened aesthetic values. His life-long passion has been on behalf of a true notion of education. This book will certainly stimulate all teachers and shcoolamsters, even thought it is dierect more widely. Behind the variety is convition: that the spiritiual values ares supreme and supremely rewarding; and that there can be no such thing as a sacrifice for truth. 232 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and… Read More

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Cambridge University Press, 2013. Paperback. New. 240 pages. 8.00x5.00x0.61 inches.

Paperback / softback. New. George Sampson (1873-1950) was a renowned literary scholar and educationalist. First published in 1947, this book gathers together a selection of essays by Sampson on a variety of subjects. The text is comprised of a mixture of reprinted works and original material.