Holbrook Jackson — Great English Novelists

London, Grant Richards , 1908. First edition. Cloth. A signed presentation copy of these sketches of English novelists by Holbrook Jackson, previously owned by his brother. A signed presentation copy given by the author to his brother, Charlie. Inscribed to the front free endpaper.First edition.In the publisher's cloth.Illustrated with a frontispiece, and thirty-one plates. Collated, complete.A well-versed series of critical essays on the lives and works of eminent English novelists. 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.Written by Holbrook Jackson, a noted journalist, publisher and leading bibliophile of his time. In the publisher's cloth. Externally, with loss and lifting to the head of the spine. Fading to the spine and light general rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Front hinge is strained. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean. Offsetting to the endpapers and occasional spots. Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Good .