STRACHEY, LYTTON — Eminent Victorians (Collins New Classics Series)

London and Glasgow: Collins Clear-Type Press, 1959. Hardcover. A 1959 edition of Lytton Strachey's four short biographies of leading English citizens living in the time of Queen Victoria: Cardinal Henry Manning, Florence Nightingale, Dr. Thomas Arnold and General "Chinese" Gordon. This work first published in 1918. With an introduction by Noel Annan and a frontis drawing of the author. An entry in Collins New Classics series. --- Bound in full blue cloth-covered boards with simple gilt spine titling, grey patterned endpapers and blue topstain. Volume lacks the dust jacket. --- A bright, tightly bound copy though boards are slightly splayed and with a hint of sunning to spine, otherwise lacking damages worthy of mention.; 12mo (7 to 7-1/2 in. tall); 288 pages. Very Good+ with no dust jacket .