Ernest Rhys

Rhys, Ernest (ed.): Modern English Essays 1870 to 1920, Volume Five, E.P. Dutton New York 1922
Very Good++ in red cloth boards. Slight sunning to boards, slight wear to head of spine, prev. owner's bookplate on ffep.

Cloth Bds 16mo 245 pp. Volume Five in the five volume set of Modern English Essays 1870 to 1920 edited by Ernest Rhys. This volume includes A. Clutton-Broch on The Magic Flute, Robert Lynd on Hawthorne, A.G. Gardiner on Taking a Holiday, John Galsworthy on Reverie of a Sportsman, W.H. Hudson on The Samphire Gatherer, George Santayana on Heathensim, A.C. Benson on The Art of the Essayist, James Huncker on Henry James, J.C. Squire on The Dead Man and on The Lonely Author, George Sampson on Walter Bagehot, Edward Garnett on Richard jefferies, J. Middleton Murry on John Clare, A.A. Milne on Going Dry, H.J. Massingham on The Venice of England, Alfred Noyes on William Morris, Charles M. Bakewell on William James, Grace Rhys on The Five Images of Love, Edmond G.A. Holmes on The Recreation of the Spitalfields Weavers, Maurice Hewlett on The Crystal Vase, Vida D. Scudder on Plato as a Novelist and Ernest Rhys on W.H. Hudson. Frontispiece drawing of John Galsworthy with a facsimile of his signature.

[SW: Ernest Rhys Literature Literary Criticism John Galsworthy A.A. Milne W.H. Hudson Alfred Noyes George Santayana]

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Henry Hallam: The Constitutional History of England - Henry VII. to George II. - Three Volumes / 3 Bände. London: J. M. Dent & Sons, ca. 1914, 388 S. / 425 / 373 Seiten, Halbleder-Bände mit ornament. Jugendstil-Schmuckrücken. (Everyman's Library - edited by Ernest Rhys)
Editor: Ernest Rhys / With an Introduction by Prof. J. H. Morgan. - Achtung diese Ausgabe stammt aus der persönlichen Exil-Bibliothek von Richard Löwenthal (dt. Jounalist, Historiker u. SPD-Politiker); die Bände sind jeweils vorn im Band gestempelt mit: Richard-Löwenthal-Bibliothek (weitere Bände dieser Bibliothek sind bei uns im Angebot) (innen gut u. sauber, allerdings die Vorderdeckel u. damit auch der 1. Bogen der Bände glöst; Kanten d. Lederrücken berieben u. Handsignatur)

(Everyman's Library - edited by Ernest Rhys)

[SW: Richard Löwenthal, Geschichte Englands, Politik, England]

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(Leighton, Frederic Lord). Rhys, Ernest. FREDERIC LORD LEIGHTON. Late President of the Royal Academy of Arts. An Illustrated Record of His Life and Work By Ernest Rhys. London: George Bell & Sons, 1900.

HANDSOMELY BOUND IN THREE-QUARTER MOROCCO LEATHER - Octavo, handsomely bound in three-quarter green morocco & cloth titled with decorations in gilt and raised bands on the spine. The top edge is gilt. The spine is slightly faded and there is some minor bumping to the corners. 144 pages, profusely illustrated throughout with full-page plates and an engraved frontispiece. A previous owner's inscription is penned on the front blank. A handsome book. Very good. <p>Revised third edition. Printed by Charles Whittingham and Co. at the Chiswick Press.

[SW: ART; ILLUSTRATED; FREDERIC LORD LEIGHTON; LATE PRESIDENT ROYAL ACADEMY OF ART; ERNEST RHYS; ILLUSTRATIONS; ENGRAVING; PLATES; LEATHER BINDING; MOROCCO; BIOGRAPHY; BIOGRAPHICAL; CRITICISM; HISTORY OF ART; CHISWICK PRESS; PAINTER; ARTIST.]

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Rhys, Ernest (ed.): Modern English Essays 1870 to 1920, Volume One, E.P. Dutton New York 1922
Very Good++ in red cloth boards. Some sunning to boards, prev. owner's bookplate on ffep. Tear to one page of text.

Cloth Bds 16mo 239 pp. Volume One of a five volume series of essays written between 1870 and 1920 edited by Ernest Rhys. This volume includes essays by Mark Pattison on Montaigne, Matthew Arnold on Spinoza, Walter Bagehot on Richard Cobden, Charles Kingsley on A Charm of Birds, Ralph Waldo Emerson on Old Age, James Russell Lowell on Thoreau, Richard Holt Hutton on John Stuart Mill, an essay from The Spectator on an English gnostic, an essay from The Athenaeum on Rymer and His Foedera, Swinburne on Walter Savage Landor, Walter Pater on Leonardo da Vinci, Frederic Harrison on the romance of the peerage, and Edward Dowden on Christopher Marlowe. Frontispiece drawing of Frederic Harrison with a facsimile of his signature.

[SW: Ernest Rhys Literary Criticism Literature Walter Pater Ralph Waldo Emerson Charles Kingsley Matthew Arnold Walter Bagehot James R. Lowell]

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