Stephen, Leslie, & Samuel Johnson, John Morley (ed.)

Samuel Johnson [interleaved with scholar notes]: English Men of Letters

London: Macmillan and Co., 1885. Hardcover, brown leather boards with yellow end papers. Contemporary binding. 5"x7", pp. [4], 195, plus 100 leaves interwoven between pages, every-other. Approx. 40 interleaves have significant note taking, in pen; more annotations present throughout. The majority of annotations are found prior to page 60. "Home & Colonial School Society: Training Department" blue stamp on half title page, including scholar's name - "S.A. Sewell." Book plate from P.J. Hanson [Cufield / Eufield]. Cover boards are plain; likely a custom binding for a Samuel Johnson scholar. Spine is plain and slightly cracked at the hinges though intact. Item #229

"Sir Leslie Stephen KCB FBA (28 November 1832 – 22 February 1904) was an English author, critic, historian, biographer, mountaineer, and an Ethical movement activist. He was also the father of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell."

Price: $460.00