"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 ;
"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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