Holbrook Jackson — Great English Novelists

London, Grant Richards, 1908. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this illustrated series of biographical pieces of eminent English authors, from the author's own library. The first edition.From the library of the author, with his bookplate to the front paste down, and his signature to the recto of the front endpaper. A brilliant series of critical essays on the lives and works of the greatest English novelists of all time. Including essays on Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, Tobias Smollett, Laurence Sterne, Sir Walter Scott, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Benjamin Disraeli, Charles Dickens, William Makepeace Thackeray, and George Meredith.Illustrated with a frontispiece, and thirty-one plates. Collated, complete.By the journalist, writer, and publisher George Holbrook Jackson. A noted journalist who worked for numerous magazines during his career, Jackson is known as being one of the leading bibliophiles of his time. He founded in the Flying Fame Press alongside Ralph Hodgson and Claud Lovat Fraser, and had a long association with English small presses. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally smart. Light rubbing to the spine. Minor shelf wear to the head and tail of the spine. Bookplate to the front paste down and signature to the recto of the front endpaper. Spots to the froe edge. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean with scattered spots. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Various. Very Good Indeed .