Platitudes in the making
Subtitle: precepts and advices for gentlefolk
By: by Holbrook Jackson.
Publisher: Ignatius Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 92
Subjects: Epigrams; Aphorisms and apothegms
Description: In 1955, in a used bookstore in San Francisco, Dr. Alfred Kessler, an avid collector of the works of G. K. Chesterton, uncovered a rare treasure - Chesterton's personal copy of a privately published edition of Holbrook Jackson's Platitudes in the Making (1911), with original responses by Chesterton written in green pencil between the lines of Jackson's book.

Since 1911, this hitherto unknown Chesterton "book within a book" has been seen only by a privileged few. Now, Ignatius Press is pleased to present this beautiful facsimile edition in which admirers of Chesterton everywhere will have the opportunity for an extraordinary glimpse of the remarkable wisdom and humor of this literary giant "at play".
Notes: Originally published: London : D.J. Rider ; New York : Mitchell Kennerley, 1911.  Includes dedication by author to G.K. Chesterton (on 1st prel. p.) and the original handwriten responses by Chesterton in green.