Bagehot, Walter Estimates of some Englishmen and Scotchmen London 1858
Bagehot, Walter. Estimates of some Englishmen and Scotchmen, a series of articles reprinted by permission principally from the National Review. London: Chapman and Hall, 1858. (4)453 pp. + a leaf of ads at the end dated February 1, 1858. 8vo, original orange-brown cloth (a bit spotted).First edition. The author's first book, and the beginning of a distinguished Victorian literary career. Included are nine long review essays, on "the first Edinburgh Reviewers" (including Sydney Smith), William Cowper, Edward Gibbon, Bishop Butler, Shakespeare, Shelley, Hartley Coleridge, Sir Robert Peel, and Macaulay. Scarce. A very good copy; early bookplate of the Langport Subscription Library. CBEL III, 1368; CBEL (3) IV, 2468.
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