18086 Kipling Pevious owner writing in first

Pevious owner writing in first endpaper

Cassandra's portrait on the front

Mridula Sharma

Kareem skillfully convinces us that the Age of Reason and the Gothic novel were part of the same transition in thought that worked its way through the 18th century

but of special interest to us is the essay by David Gilson "Jane Austen's Text: A Survey of Editions

18086 Kipling Pevious owner writing in firstEntire subtitle: "Being a Collection of the most sensational True Crimes and the most notorious Real Criminals that blotted the name of Brittain in the years 1660 1800. By Various Hands. The Whole collected together and embellishd with Observations historical, moral, and critical by Lillan de la Torre." Contributors include Andrew Lang, Daniel Defoe, Raymond Postgate, Sir Walter Scott, Johan Paget, G. Thorn Drury, Jonathan Swift, Edmund Pearson,