Leslie Stephen — Hours in a Library

London, Smith, Elder & Co. 1909. Cloth. A scarce complete three volume set of the new editions of this collection of literary criticism by Leslie Stephens. The new editions of the work. In publisher's original red cloth bindings. A complete three volume set of works by Leslie Stephen, an English author, critic, historian and father of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell.These volumes are an analysis and appreciation of various notable writers, made up of papers on books of the eighteenth and nineteenth century, considering the works of De Foe, Walter Scott, Charlotte Bronte and George Eliot amongst other authors. In publisher's original cloth bindings. Externally, generally smart. Bumping to the heads and tails of the spines, with fading. Cloth to joints of volume III splitting, causing cloth to lift away from spine. Previous owner's book plate to front paste down of all volumes. Spotting and offsetting to endpapers. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean with the odd spot. Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Good .