CRITICAL AND MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS - with - CRITICAL AND MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS

Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1846. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Printing - First Thus. 8vo. (iv) 176, 158 pp. Both titles are bound in a single volume and paginated individually. Quarter-bound with a leather spine and corners on patterned boards; lettered in gilt on the spine; patterned endpapers; headband. Light wear on the corners; previous owner's name inside. The contents are: T. NOON TALFOURD: On British Novels and Romances - Introductory to a Series of Criticism on the Living Novelists; Mackenzie; The Author of Waverley; Godwin; Maturin; Rymer on Tragedy; Colley Cibber's Apology for His Life; John Dennis's Works; Modern Periodical Literature; On the Genius and Writings of Wordsworth; North Life of Lord Guilford; Hazlitt's Lectures on the Drama; Wallace's Prospects of Mankind Nature and Providence; On Pulpit Oratory; Recollections of Lisbon; Lloyd's Poems; Mr Oldaker on Modern Improvements; A Chapter on Time; On the Profession of the Bar; The Wine Cellar; Destruction of the Brunswick Theatre by Fire; First Appearance of Miss Fanny Kemble; The Melo-dramas Against Gambling; On the Intellectual Character of the Late William Hazlitt; The Late Dowager Lady Holland; Address at the Anniversary of the Manchester Athenaeum; Lord Eldon and Lord Stowell; Speech for the Defendant in the Prosecution of the Queen vs Moxon for the Publication of Shelley's Works; Speech on the Motion for Leave to Bring in a Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright; Speech on the Motion for the Second Reading of the Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright; Speech on Moving the Second Reading of a Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright; and The Westminster Play. JAMES STEPHEN: Life of William Wilberforce; The Lives of Whitfield and Froude; D'Aubigne's History of the Great Reformation; Life and Times of Richard Baxter; Physical Theory of Another Life; The Port Royalists; Ignatius Loyola and His Associates; and Taylor's Edwin the Fair..