Product Description
A selection of prose in English, from Chaucer to Rupert Brooke, hardcover published by OUP/ Clarendon Press, originally published in 1925.
1092 pages, previous owners name in pencil to blank front endpaper, ( which shows moderate to heavy age spotting and foxing)
Titles in gold to front and spine, some of the inner pages - pages 9 to 64 show creasing to edges ( as if bumped ) no inscriptions or marks.
As detaied an introduction to prose in English to 1914 as existed at that time, including a wide range of ( predominately male ) authors , extracts from letters, essays, the bible , novels, jornalism, short stories, elegies, and all manner of writing.