First Edition. Hardcover in fine condition. Previous owner's inscription in ink on front endpaper. Dustjacket in very good+ condition, 1" closed tear at back top edge by spine, back top edge slightly rubbed. Price clipped. 220pp, including index. From d/j flap- ' The first part of the book considers the aims, methods and difficulties peculiar to the biographer. In the second part six Victorian biographies are considered. Trevelyan's 'Macauley' - Froude's 'Carlyle' - Morley's 'Gladstone' - Stanley's 'Dr. Arnold' - Ward's ' Newman' and Samuel Smiles's 'Lives of Engineers.'

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