Montague Essays

Summers, Montague: Essays in Petto, London Fortune Press 1928
ISBN: B0006AKMMU Very Good

The Reverend Montague Summers (1880-1948) was an English priest and man of letters who gained widespread fame by his works on witchcraft. He also wrote brilliantly on the theatre, the drama of the Restoration, and other literary subjects. This compilation of his essays includes: Ann Radcliffe; Jane Austen; Byron's "Lovely Rosa;" The Marquis de Sade; A Restoration Prompt-Book; Pepys's "Doll Common-"' Orrery's The Tragedy of Zoroastres;" The Source of Southerne's "The Fatal Marriage;" Mystical Substitution; St. Catherine of Siena; and St. Antony of Padua. First Edition No Jacket Half Cloth 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

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MONTAGUE, C.E. A WRITER'S NOTES ON HIS TRADE. London: Chatto & Windus, 1930.
Brown cloth boards and spine, gilt title to spine. Head of spine bumped two closed tears. Corners bumped. DW not price clipped, tan, brown lettering. Soil, speckled fox marks, stain to heal of spine. Edges bumped with small closed tears, head of spine closed tear, small chip. Critical Opinions to rear DW, by Arnold Bennett, in the Evening Standard; J.C. Squire, The Observer; Robert Lyn, The Daily News. Flaps mild foxing, rear flap closed tear, text clean, tightly bound. In protective mylar. viii 254, 8 vo. First Trade Edition.

First edition This book was originally published as a Limited edition of 700 copies - it was over subscribed and reprinted in this edition, unabridged, with the exception of the Introduction by H.M. Tomlinson, (front flap). Contents include: Words, Words, Words; A Living Language; Quotation; "Sez 'E" or "Thinks 'E"; Three Ways of Saying Things; Only Too clear; Putting In and Leaving Out; The Literary Play, 16 essays in all. Charles Edward Montague, 1897-1928, England, writer, essayist., he became assistant editor of the Manchester Guardian, 1890. Montague and C.P. Scott, Editor turned the Guardian into a campaigning newspaper. The both believed that the main tenet was "to bring all political action to the same tests as personal conduct". This led the men to support Home Rule for Ireland and opposed the Boer War. Montague also wrote about the theatre and by the early 1900s was acknowledged as one of Britain's leading drama critics. The Manchester Guardian was comprised of group of men who shared the same passion for political reform in the early 19th century. The members were involved in the textile industry of Manchester. Cloth Very Good in Good + DJ

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Swarbrick, Andrew (ed): The Art of Oliver Goldsmith, London Vision Press Ltd 1984
ISBN: 0 85478 026 2 Very Good

200pp inc index and Notes on Contributors. 1st Ed. Critical essays on Oliver Goldsmith's writings. Essays by D W Jefferson, Seamus Deane, Graham Parry, John Buxton, Donald Davie, John Montague, Pat Rogers, J A Downie, Bernard Harris and W J McCormack. Standard ex-lib markings and stams. Covers (olive green cloth with gilt titles to spine) very slightly edgeworn. FEP has been removed. Contents very clean and tight. DJ in VG condition except for some shelf-wear. First Edition Very Good Cloth Ex-Library

[SW: Oliver Goldsmith, Literature, Post Modernism, Lit Crit, D W Jefferson, seamus deane, graham Parry, john buxton, donald vadie, john Montague, Pat Rogers, J A Downie, Bernard Harris and W J McCormack]

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Montague, C E: Dramatic Values, Methuen & Co 1925
A collection of 16 essays with the theatre as their theme. topics discussed range from J M Synge to Ibsen via Wilde. Most appeared in either the Manchester Guardian or the English Review.

3rd edition, revised. Cloth, VG. x+274pp, corners bumped, otherwise a nice copy.

[SW: theatre, plays, criticism, essays, shaw, ibsen, wilde, shakespeare,]

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