Architects of English Literature: Biographical Sketches of Great Writers from Shakespeare to Tennyson

326p, numerous plates. Blue cloth-covered boards; blue design on front, gilt titles on front; top text block edge gilt; remaining edges untrimmed. 8vo. Sun-faded spine, titles completely faded. Rubbed corners and spine ends. Gilt on top text block edge fading, remaining edges tanning and foxing. Endpapers starting to fox and tan; previous owner's name on front endpapers, two folds of rear free endpaper. Foxing throughout; intensity varies greatly. Internally neat, clean and tight. Illustrated with facsimiles from Autograph MSS. Twenty-four of the great authors with a facsimile page for each.