Writers and Readers. by HILL, George Birkbeck

London: Fisher Unwin, 1892. Half morocco, 7 1/2 inches tall. An elegant half crushed morocco by Bayntun with gilt raised bands and ornate gilt tooling to the panels. gilt top edge. From the Library of the Late Christopher Foyle of Beeleigh Abbey. Hill devoted himself to the study of 18th-century English literature, and established his reputation as the most learned commentator on the works of Samuel Johnson. Here we have six lectures on the revolutions in literary taste embellished with 60 extra-illustrations. A splendid copy.