A book of 'characters' from Theophrastus, Joseph Hall, Sir Thomas Overbury, Nicolas Breton, John Earle, Thomas Fuller, and other English authors; Jean de La Bruyère, Vauvenargues, and other French authors
By: compiled and translated by Richard Aldington, with an introd. and notes.
Contributors: Aldington, Richard, 1892-1962, comp. and tr.
Publisher: Folcroft Library Editions
Published: 1978
Place of publication: Folcroft, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 559
Subjects: Character sketches.
Notes: Reprint of the 1924 ed. published by G. Routledge, London, in series: Broadway translations.