Edward Lear; Holbrook Jackson [editor] — All Manner of Folk, Interpretations and Studies

London, Grant Richards Ltd, 1912. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this uncommon work of literary criticism by Holbrook Jackson, signed by the author. The first edition of this uncommon work.Signed by the author to the recto of the front endpaper, with his bookplate to the front paste down.'All Manner of Folk, Interpretations and Studies' presents a series of essays on culture and criticism, with biographical notices on Max Beerbohm, Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, Henry David Thoreau, and William Morris.Illustrated with a frontispiece, and four 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.Two pages of adverts to the rear. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, generally smart, with light marks to the cloth. Spine is faded. Minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Spots to the fore edge. Front hinge is starting but firm. Bookplate to the front paste down. Author's signature to the recto of the front endpaper. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean with scattered spots. Frontispiece is detached but present, as are pages 7 to 10. Good . Ill.: Various. Good .