Studies of a biographer
By: by Leslie Stephen.
Contributors: Stephen, Leslie, Sir, 1832-1904, inscriber.; Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941, former owner.; Stephen, Thoby, 1880-1906, former owner.; Library of Leonard and Virginia Woolf.
Publisher: Duckworth
Published: 1899
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Biography as a literary form.; Authors, English.; Great Britain -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Vols. 3 and 4: Second series.

WSU MASC copy 1 vols. 1 and 2 is 2nd impression.

WSU MASC copy 1 vol. 1 inscribed: "Julian Thoby Stephen from his loving father LS 8 Sep. 03."

WSU MASC copy 1 vol. 3 inscribed on title-page: "Adeline Virginia Stephen from her loving father LS 22.10.02".
Table of contents: value: I. National biography. The evolution of editors. John Byrom. Johnsoniana. Gibbon's autobiography. Arthur Young. Wordsworth's youth. The story of Scott's ruin. The importation of German. Mathew Arnold. Jowett's life. Oliver Wendell Holmes. Life of Tennyson. Pascal.; value: III. The Browning letters. John Donne. John Ruskin. William Godwin's novels. Walter Bagehot. Thomas Henry Huxley. James Anthony Froude. In praise of walking.; value: IV. Shakespeare as a man. Southey's letters. New lights on Milton. Emerson. Anthony Trollope. Robert Louis Stevenson. The cosmopolitan spirit in literature.