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Shorter Novels: Elizabethan. Includes Jack of Newberie and Thomas of Reading by Thomas Deloney; Carde of Fancie by Robert Greene; The Unfortunate Traveller by Thomas Nashe (Everyman's Library #824)
by SAINTSBURY, George (introduction); HENDERSON, Philip (notes)
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
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About This Item
London / New York: Everyman's Library - J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. / E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc.. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1960. Hardcover. 1960 reprint of the 1929 issuance. An Everyman's Library edition, offering four shorter 16th and 17th century English novels. Includes: Jack of Newberie and Thomas of Reading by Thomas Deloney, The Carde of Fancie by Robert Greene, and The Unfortunate Traveller by Thomas Nashe. With a general introduction by George Saintsbury, and notes on the authors by Philip Henderson. With facsimiles of all four original title pages. Number 824 in Everyman's Library Fiction series. --- In Everyman's Library larger format binding style 4. Full blue cloth-covered boards with gilt-stamped spine titling and copper-toned interlocked "EL" in script at tail of spine; orange topstain. Volume wrapped in light blue dust jacket with "Everyman's Library" surrounded by scrollwork to front panel. --- Exposure to moisture has left dampstains to cloth and verso of jacket, with slightly warped boards, otherwise a clean, tightly-bound copy. Jacket with crumpling & small tears to edges, else bright, intact and wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; 12mo - 7 to 7-1/2 in. tall; xvii, [2], 356, 4 (ads) pages .
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- Bluebird Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 88369
- Title
- Shorter Novels: Elizabethan. Includes Jack of Newberie and Thomas of Reading by Thomas Deloney; Carde of Fancie by Robert Greene; The Unfortunate Traveller by Thomas Nashe (Everyman's Library #824)
- Author
- SAINTSBURY, George (introduction); HENDERSON, Philip (notes)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Publisher
- Everyman's Library - J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. / E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc.
- Place of Publication
- London / New York
- Date Published
- 1960
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