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by Walter Alexander Raleigh

Hardcover without jacket; fourth edition of 1901; boards slightly marked and edgeworn; bumped at corners and spine ends. Previous owner's plate on front pastedown; pastedowns and endpapers are a little foxed and tanned. Rough-cut pages generally well-preserved, with rare instances of minor marks. Text is clear throughout, and binding is sound. TS

Hardcover

Published January 1, 1901

About the author

Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh was an English scholar, poet, and author. Raleigh was also a Cambridge Apostle. He was Professor of English Literature at Mohammedan Anglo-Oriental College in Aligarh in India (1885–87), Professor of Modern Literature at University College Liverpool (1890–1900), Regius Professor of English Language and Literature at Glasgow University (1900–1904), and in 1904 became the first holder of the Chair of English Literature at Oxford University. He was a fellow of Merton College, Oxford (1914–22). He was knighted in 1911.[