Varied types, by G. K. Chesterton.
Publication details: New York, Dodd, Mead and company, 1903. Description: 269 p. front. (port.)| Item type | Current library | Collection | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reservations |
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GK Chesterton Collection | Reference | GKC.2.VAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Not For Loan | C.424 |
Note: These papers, with certain alterations and additions, are reprinted with the kind permission of the Editors of the Daily news and the Speaker. G.K.C. Kensington.
The first 12 essays were published in London, by A. L. Humphreys, 1903, under title: Twelve types.
Annotations: front end paper [blue pen] Aidan Mackey
Enclosure: [lined index card with pen and pencil annotation] [pen] Varied Types. S14. GKC. Dodd, Mead and company. Sept 08. Being text of 'Twelve Types - 1902 - with seven additional essays [pencil] 1st USA. Sept 1903. 'Twelve Types' with 7 added essays on Bret Harte, Alfred the Great, Maeterlink, The German Emperor, Queen Victoria, Tennyson, & Eliz Barrett Browning. Not found in Britain in this form.
Charlie Brontë.--William Morris and his school.--The optimism of Byron.--Pope and the art of satire.--Francis.--Rostand.--Charles II.-- Stevenson.--Thomas Carlyle.--Tolstoy and the cult of simplicity.--The position of Sir Walter Scott.--Bret Harte.--Alfred the great.--Maeterlinck.--Ruskin.-- Queen Victoria.--The German emperor.--Tennyson.--Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
Sullivan 14.
Library copies have Shaw's Chesterton book plate.
Copies bound in dark red cloth.