Sustaining Literature: Essays on Literature, History, and Culture, 1500-1800

First edition, first printing. 326pp, with occasional monochrome illustrations. In black cloth-covered boards with gilt titles on spine. 8vo. Cloth very slightly rounded at spine ends. Gift inscription on half title page, else internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original glossy dust jacket, illustrated, a little shelf worn and very lightly bumped around spine base. A collection of essays produced to commemorative the life and work of Simon Varey. Essays include Lying Odes: Dryden’s Alexander’s Feast; Comical Satire Alive and Well after the Glorious Revolution; The Grub-Street Journal – Construction and Control of its Readership, etc.