"English Essays: Sir Philip Sidney To Macaulay, with Introduction and Notes", Compiled and Edited by Charles W. Eliot, The Harvard Classics Volume #27, published by P.F. Collier & Son, New York, 1937.

Hard boards, original red cloth [a few dark spots on boards], gold lettering on spine, 5.1/2" x 8"; decorated endpapers, frontispiece with tissue guard, 401 pages, nice cream-color paper, one stain [drop of coffee?] on page 203 [see photo], very good condition.

Contents: Essays by 17 English authors:

The Defense Of Poesy, by Sir Philip Sidney
On Shakespeare and On Bacon, by Ben Jonson
Of Agriculture, by Abraham Cowley
The Vision Of Mirza and Westminster Abbey, by Joseph Addison
The Spectator Club, by Sir Richard Steele

Hints Towards An Essay On Conversation, A Treatise On Good Manners And Good Breeding, A Letter Of Advice To A Young Poet, and On The Death Of Esther Johnson (Stella), by Jonathan Swift

The Shortest-Way with the Dissenters and The Education Of Women, by Daniel Defoe
Life Of Addison, by Samuel Johnson
Of The Standard Of Taste, by David Hume
Fallacies Of Anti-Reformers, by Sydney Smith
On Poesy Or Art, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Of Persons One Would Wish To Have Seen, by William Hazlitt
Deaths Of Little Children and On The Realities Of Imagination, by Leigh Hunt
On The Tragedies Of Shakespeare, by Charles Lamb
Levana and Our Ladies Of Sorrow, by Thomas De Quincey
A Defence Of Poetry, by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Machiavelli, by Thomas Babington Macaulay

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