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Gross, John
THE RISE AND FALL OF THE MAN OF LETTERS
Aspects of English Literary Life Since 1800, b&w illustrations from portraits, drawings, cartoons and photographs, bibliography and index, xiv & 322 pp, black cloth in d/w, top edge of d/w browned and a little rubbed, otherwise in very good condition, Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1969
21.6 x 13.4 cm, 630g, SBN 29776 494 2
See below the description from the dustwrapper flap, and extracts from reviews of this edition.
The author was at various times theatre critic of the Sunday Telegraph and editor of the Times Literary Supplement, as well as writing for the New York Times.
The book was published by Penguin as a Pelican paperback in 1973, but all editions are long out of print.
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