Studies of a Biographer - 4 Volumes
Stephen, Leslie London, Duckworth and Co., , . 1898; 1898; 1902; 1902. First editions. 8vo (5 3/4" x 8 1/8"). 267 pages; 284 pages; 279 pages; 285 pages. Olive green buckram cloth-covered boards, gilt lettering on spines, blind-embossed publisher's logo at lower left-hand corners of rear boards, beveled edges to boards, top edge of pages gilded, deckle edge paper (hardcover bindings). Bindings rubbed and scuffed, endpapers foxed. Volumes III and IV are noted as "SecondSeries" on their title pages. Includes essays on Byrom, Johnson, Gibbons, Arthur Young, Wordsworth. Vol.2 - 284pp. Includes essays on Scott, Arnold, Jowett, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Tennyson, Pascal. Vol.3 - 285pp. Published 1902. Includes essays on Browing, Donne, Ruskin, William Godwin, Bagehot, Thomas Henry Huxley, Froude. Cover is stained. Front hinge slightly damaged. Vol.4 - 279pp. Published 1902. Includes essays on Shakespeare, Southey, Milton, Emerson, Trollope, RL Stevenson. Leslie Stephen was an interesting man, father of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell by his second wife, Julia Prinsep, "a woman of singular beauty and refinement of mind". His first wife had been Thackeray"s youngest daughter. He was a mountaineer with many first ascents in the Alps to his credit, and was the first editor of the Dictionary of National Biography (DNB); both these activities requiring great endurance. He visited America several times and was intimate with Charles Eliot Norton and James Russell Lowell, who was god-father to Virginia. Media shipping $6.00
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