The English Essayists: A Comprehensive Selection from the Works of the Great Essayists, from Lord Bacon to John Ruskin by Robert Cochrane
1876. 536 pages. No dust jacket. Dark green cloth with a black and white illustrated frontis and black and white illustrations throughout. Heavy tanning to pages with heavier foxing and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Pencil inscriptions to front endpaper and cracking to the guttering and hinges making book shaky. Distinctive tanning to text block edges as well. Boards have moderate rubbing and visible bumping to corners with fair crushing to spine ends as well.