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The Life and Travels of a Victorian Architect

Eight booklets in good condition

Christie's Auction 10 May 2018

he left behind two collections of supernatural fiction—The Horror of Abbot's Grange and The Night Wind Howls—which rank amongst the rarest books in the genre

Van Wyck Brooks - The World of Washington Irving, J M Dent, 1945 The Times Pencil notation on blurb pageVan Wyck Brooks The World of Washington Irving, J M Dent, 1945 A work of literary history by Van Wyck Brooks that explores the American literary scene from the early 1800s to the 1840s, using Washington Irving's life as a central thread. It examines the cultural and social background of an emerging American nation and the writers who helped define its distinct literature. Green cloth in fine condition. Foxing to cloth. Minor foxing to page edges.