Selections From The Journals And Papers Of John Byrom Poet – Diarist – Shorthand Writer 1691-1763.
£25.00
Publisher
Rockliff Salisbury Square.
Place
London
Date
1950
Synopsis
Edited with notes and biographical sketches of some of his notable contemporaries by henri talon professor of english literature in the university of dijon. foreword by bonamy dobree.
Item Description
8vo. 8.75 x 5.75 inches. xvi + 336 pp. Bound in original red cloth, gilt, in unclipped pictorial dust wrapper which is stained and with chips and loss at head and tail of sunned spine. Front board and spine damp stained but otherwise a very good clean copy. Illustrated by portrait frontispiece, by 14 pages of black and white plates, including facsimiles and by text figure and genealogical table. Selections from the writings of John Byrom (1691-1763 of Manchester, F.R.S., poet, hymnwriter and inventor of a system of shorthand. Edited by Henri Talon (1909-72) of the University of Dijon, with a foreword by Bonamy Dobree (1892-1974) Professor of English Literature at the University of Leeds, 1936-65.
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