Literature
HAZLITT, William.
The Round Table: a collection of essays on litterature, men and manners.
Edinburgh: printed for Archibald Constable and Co., and Longman, Rees, Orme, and Brown, London, 1817. 2 volumes, 8vo (17.5 x 11 cm); contemporary tree calf by Riviere, covers with gilt border, spines in six compartments, gilt lettering to second and third, others with wttractive tooling, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers. A superb set.
William Hazlitt (10 April 1778 - 18 September 1830) was an English writer remembered for his humanistic essays and literary criticism. Hazlitt was a prominent English literary critic, grammarian and philosopher. He is considered one of the greatest critics and essayists in English, placed in the same company as Samuel Johnson and George Orwell, but his work is currently little-read.
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