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The Annotated Letters of Christopher Smart
by Rizzo, Betty
- New
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- New/New
- ISBN 10
- 0809316099
- ISBN 13
- 9780809316090
- Seller
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Harwich Port, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
Carbondale, Illinois: Southern Illinois University, 1991. Remainder. New. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Carbondale, Illinois, Southern Illinois University, 1991. First edition. 8vo. Deep raspberry cloth with silver lettering embossed on spine and front board, attractive dark plum endpapers, illustrated with black and white photographs of letters, 184 pp. Although Christopher Smart has been elevated by 20th-century scholarship to a position of major significance among 18th-century British poets, as a man he remains enigmatic. This first complete collection of his known letters presents the best psychological portrait to date. Remainder. New in a new dust jacket, protected by a mylar cover..
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- Bookseller
- Rose's Books, IOBA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- EM-B1214-10
- Title
- The Annotated Letters of Christopher Smart
- Author
- Rizzo, Betty
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New New
- Jacket Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0809316099
- ISBN 13
- 9780809316090
- Publisher
- Southern Illinois University
- Place of Publication
- Carbondale, Illinois
- Date Published
- 1991
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- 18TH CENTURY BRITISH POETS CORRESPONDENCE
- Bookseller catalogs
- British History; Poetry;
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