1897 Four Generations of a Literary Family - The Hazlitts in England, Ireland, and America In Two Volumes

Description

First Edition, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

A lovely two volume first edition set, in original lime cloth, and decorated with gilt text and inscription decoration to front boards.

Both volumes feature monochrome frontispiece portraits of key figures in the Hazlitt family - of John and William Hazlitt, respectively.

Volume 1 features an additional 4 monochrome plates of Hazlitt family portraits.
Collated, complete.

One of many publications by W. Carew Hazlitt, grandson of William Hazlitt, the British essayist, drama and literature critic, painter, social commentator and philosopher. Hazlitt's literary criticisms were hugely influential during his lifetime, and he surrounded himself with a number of highly successful literary figures, such as Keats, Coleridge and Wordsworth.

Both copies feature the bookplate of stonemason and Aberdeen architect John Morgan to front paste downs.