A First Year in Canterbury Settlement and Other Early Essays
London: Jonathan Cape, 1923.
Price: $24.00
Hardcover. Limited edition. Shrewsbury Edition. Volume one only of a possible twenty volume set. Top edge gilt. Very good. Uncut page edges. Corners water stained. Spine darkened. Edges of boards faded. Small piece on spine tail chipped. This is number 671 of 750 numbered sets.
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Samuel Butler
birth name: Samuel Butler
born: 12/4/1835
died: 6/18/1902
Biography
English novelist, essayist, and critic whose satire Erewhon (1872) foreshadowed the collapse of the VIctorian illusion of eternal progress. The Way of All Flesh (1903), his autobiographical novel, is generally considered his masterpiece. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore