Swift on his Age by Colin J. Horne

Swift on his Age

Selected Prose and Verse

by Colin J. Horne

George G. Harrap & Co., 1953,[First Edition], hardcover

Very Good Condition, a little edge and shelf wear, a little rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, ex-library with stamps and tape residue to front and back endpapers, previous owners details on front endpaper, sticker residue to spine (see photographs)

“This series aims at presenting in an attractive form English texts which have not only intrinsic merit as literature, but which are also valuable as manifestations of the spirit of the age in which they were written.  The plan was inspired by the desire to break away from the usual annotated edition of English classics and to provide a series of books illustrating some of the chief developments in English civilisation since the Middle Ages.”