Cornhill

Arnold, Matthew (introduction by G. K. Chesterton): ESSAYS: LITERARY AND CRITICAL, London J. M. Dent - Everyman Library 1928
Very Good

(xv) 380 pp. followed by a four-page essay about Everyman's Library by Ernest Rhys. Salmon-coloured cloth decorated in gilt on the spine; decorated endpapers; Navy blue upper edge. Light wear on the corners of the dustjacket with some minor chipping at the head and foot of the spine; no interior markings. This collection contains: The Function of Criticism at the Present Time - National Review November 1864; The Literary Influence of Academies - Cornhill Magazine August 1864; Maurice de Guerin - Fraser's Magazine January 1863; Eugenie de Guerin - Cornhill Magazine June 1863; Heinrich Heine - Cornhill Magazine August 1863; Pagan and Christian Religious Sentiment - Cornhill Magazine April 1864; Joubert or a French Coleridge - National Review January 1864; A Word More About Spinoza - MacMillan's Magazine December 1863; and Marcus Aurelius - Victoria Magazine November 1863; followed by On Translating Homer; Homeric Translation in Theory and Practice - A Reply to Matthew Arnold by Francis W. Newman; and Last Words on Translating Homer. Later Printing Very Good Hard Cover 16mo

[SW: english british literature; criticism;]

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Purves, F: 1939 - 1945, Cornhill 1946 ; 1. Ed.
Very Good +

An unusual book designed & printed for the Cornhill Insurance Co in 1946. The Company posted advertisments in the "Post Magazine" & gradually developed the now familiar "Cornhill Column" during WW2.the idea was conceived of presenting those advertisments between 1939 - 1945 against the background of the war period in which they were written.95 pages printed on very good quality paper (card weight) beautifully presented. The brown cloth covers with minor shelfwear, printing to front very good - no name. Guaranteed posting 24hrs 1st Edition - No Jacket Decorative Cloth - Hardback 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall /; 1st Edition -

[SW: CORNHILL, ADVERTISMENTS, WW2, NON FICTION, LITERATURE, Business]

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Glynn, Jenifer: PRINCE OF PUBLISHERS - A Biography Of The Great Victorian Publisher George Smith, London Allison & Busby 1986 ; fester Einband / hard cover; Schutzumschlag / dust cover; 1. Ed. ISBN: 08050316979
08050316979 Very Good

207 pages. Black cloth borads with gilt lettering on the spine. Red endpapers. Minor bumping upper right corner of the front board. Dustjacket has light edge and corner wear. Photographs on the front of the dustjacket are Paintings Courtesy of the National Portait Gallery, London. Charlotte Bronte; Mrs. Gaskell; George Eliot and John Ruskin. Contains the following: Beginnings; Early Days with Smith and Elder; Publishing Under Alexander Elder; George Smith Takes Over the Publishing; A Crisis in the Firm; Charlotte Bronte; Marriage; Mrs Gaskell; Ruskin; Money; Thackery and the Cornhill Magazine; The Cornhill after Thackeray; The Pall Mall Gazette; Libels; later Publsihing; Sickness and Wealth; and The Dictionary of National Biography. Small discreet black marks on the upper and lower edges if the text block First Edition Very Good Hard Cover 8vo; First Edition

[SW: victorian business man; cornhill magazine; pall mall gazette; the dictionaryof national biography; charlotte bronte; apollinaris mineral water;]

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[The Cornhill Magazine]: A Visit to the Suez Canal, (London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1866)

Extract from The Cornhill Magazine of March, 1866. 210 x 148; paper wrapper with title label mounted on cover; pp. [363-384]; map. Very good condition.

[SW: Suez Canal. Egypt. Shipping. Travel. Cornhill Magazine. Port Said. Red Sea. Ferdinand de Lesseps Travel]

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