Oxford

8vo., First and Sole Edition, on laid paper, with a fine portrait frontispiece of Smith by Bone, small neat contemporary signature on front paste-down; original blue buckram, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in the dustwrapper. EDITION LIMITED TO 1250 COPIES. Smith was Merton Professor of English Literature in the University of Oxford. This wonderful encomium includes a bibliography of his works. Collects nineteen extended essays by many of Smith's most eminent literary contemporaries. 'Addison' (C.S. Lewis), 'The Conciseness of Swift' (Herbert Davis), 'Deane Swift, Hawkesworth, and the Journal to Stella' (Harold Williams). 'Pope at Work' (George Sherburn), 'The Inspiration of Pope's Poetry' (John Butt), 'Where Once Stood their Plain Homely Dwelling' (Collins Baker), ''Some Aspects of Eighteenth Century Prose' (James Sutherland), 'Note on the Composition of Gray's Elegy' (H.W. Garrod), 'John Langhorne' (Hugh MacDonald), 'Notes on some Lesser Poets of the Eighteenth Century' (W.L. Renwick), 'The Formal Parts of Johnson's Letters' (R.W. Chapman), 'Mrs. Piozzi's Letters' (James L Clifford), 'The Power of Memory in Boswell and Scott' (F.A. Pottle), 'Robert Burns' (R. Dewar), 'Fanny Burney's Novels' (Lord David Cecil), 'Elegant Extracts' (Edmund Blunden), ''The Old Cumberland Beggar and the Wordworth Unities' (H V D Dyson), 'Matthew Arnold and Eighteenth-Century Poetry' (Geoffrey Tillotson), 'A List of the Writings of David Nichol Smith 1896-1945' (F P Wilson), 'Index' (Arthur Tillotson).