Hours in a library
By: Leslie Stephen ; introduction by Jonathan Steinberg.
Contributors: Steinberg, Jonathan.; Archer, Caroline, book designer.; Bath Press,; Folio Society (London, England),
Publisher: The Folio Society
Published: 1991
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: English literature -- History and criticism
Notes: "The essays in Hours in A Library were first published in the Cornhill and Fraser's magazines and in the Fortnightly Review. They were first collected in book form in three volumes published in 1874, 1876 and 1879. The text of the second three-volume edition of 1892, which included additional essays, has been followed here.

"Set in Linotron Sabon .... Printed in Great Britain at the Bath Press, Avon on Monument Wove paper ... Design by Caroline Archer"--cf. verso t.p.

002-118715721, v. 1 ; 002-118715739, v. 2 ; 002-118715747, v. 3.
Table of contents: title: v. 1. De Foe's novels. Richardson's novels. Pope as a moralist. Sir Walter Scott. Nathaniel Hawthorne. Balzac's novels. De Quincey. Sir Thomas Browne. Jonathan Edwards. Horace Walpole.; title: v.2. Dr. Johnson's writings. Crabbe. William Hazlitt. Disraeli's novels. Massinger. Fielding's novels. Cowper and Rousseau. The first Edinburgh reviewers. Wordsworth's ethics. Landor's imaginary conversations. Macaulay.; title: v. 3. Charlotte Brontë. Charles Kingsley. Godwin and Shelley. Gray and his school. Sterne. Country books. George Eliot. Autobiography. Carlyle's ethics. The state trials. Coleridge.