New York: The Macmillan Company. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1906. Hardcover. A 1906 first edition of a history of English literature. This is the second volume in a 6-part series: History of English Literature. The author was a professor of comparative literature at Harvard University. --- In dark blue cloth with gilt-stamped spine titling. Volume lacks a dust jacket. --- With prior owner's signatures to front free endpaper and title page, inked underlinings on several passages in the first 100 pages, chafing to cloth at tail of spine and with a loosened rear hinge which has been carefully repaired prior to this listing.; Small Octavo - 7-1/2 to 8 in. tall; xiii, 500 pages .

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Bookseller: Bluebird Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 85878
Title: English Literature from the Norman Conquest to Chaucer
Author: SCHOFIELD, William Henry
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Good+ with no dust jacket
Publisher: The Macmillan Company
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1906
Bookseller catalogs: >>England, UK and UK History;

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