Ravilious - English Wits. Edited by Leonard Russell.

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English Wits. Edited by Leonard Russell with contributions by James Agate, Campbell Dixon, John Gore, W.W.Hadley, Harold Hobson, Gerald Hopkins, Ronald A. Knox, D.B. Wyndham Lewis, Robert Lynd, Desmond MacCarthy, Ernest Newman, Dilys Powell, A.J.A. Symons, Olga Venn. Wood engravings by Eric Ravilious. irst edition, 8vo, 22.5cm, pp.xiv,349, Hutchinson, London, 1940.

Half-title, wood-engraved chapter headings (all repeats), and pictorial dust-jacket with half-title engraving repeated. Maroon buckram, spine label gilt. Fore-edge a bit spotted. Dust-jacket a trifle soiled and chipped. A very good copy of a scarce book.

Alexander Pope by Dilys Powell; Dr Johnson by R.A.Knox; Oscar Wilde by Desmond McCarthy; Whistler by D.B.Wyndham Lewis; Sydney Smith by Ernesr Newman; Theodore Hook by A.J.A.Symons; Charles Lamb by Robert Lynd; Sheridan by Campbell Dixon; John Wilkes by Olga Venn; Henrry Labouchere by W.W.Hadley; Max Beerbohm by Gerard Hopkins; George Bernard Shaw by Harold Hobson; "Saki" by John Gore; Russell Mitford by James Agate.

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