Holbrook Jackson — All Manner of Folk: Interpretations and Studies

London, Grant Richards Ltd , 1912. First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of Holbrook Jackson's uncommon essays, exploring literary figures, sculpting and vagabonds, among other topics. Signed by the author to the front free endpaper. First edition. In the publisher's cloth binding. Illustrated with a frontispiece and four plates. Collated, complete.An uncommon series of essays from British journalist, writer and publisher, George Holbrook Jackson. Offering discussions and criticisms of Max Beerbohm, Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, vagabonds, William Morris, George Meredith and more.Jackson was also recognised as a leading bibliophile of his time.With a twenty-three page catalogue of publisher's advertisements to the rear. In the publisher's cloth binding. Externally, with significant fading to the spine, as well as to the front board's top edge and rear board's joint side. Marks to the cloth. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, with occasional spots, largely concentrated to the edges of the leaves throughout the majority of the work. With more scattered instances to the first and last few leaves. Minor offsetting and the author's inscription to the front free endpaper. Good . Ill.: Joseph Simpson; J. B. Yeats; Lovat Fraser; Gordon Craig; Jo Davidson. Good .