The Purposeful Reading of Our Colonial Ancestors
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1937. Paperback. [28] p. (pp. 85-111); 23 cm. Light grey wrapper printed in black. Wrapper title. Reprinted from ELH, A Journal of English Literary History, vol. 4, no. 2, June 1937. A lecture given before the Tudor and Stuart Club, Jan. 11, 1937, by Louis Booker Wright (1899-1984), American author and the director of the Folger Shakespeare Library. In this lecture he discusses the "choice of books brought by the first settlers, or imported as soon as they had established themselves in the wilderness." -- p. 85. Scarce. In Very Good- Condition: discoloration along spine, presumably from rusting staples; edges of front wrapper rubbed; pages are clean and tight. Very Good -. Item #009568
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