B24 The Life and Letters of Sir Edmund Gosse
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B24 The Life and Letters of Sir Edmund Gosse
Table of Contents
B24-a First edition
Title Page
THE LIFE
AND LETTERS OF
SIR EDMUND GOSSE
by
THE HON. EVAN CHARTERIS, K.C.
publisher's windmill device, flanked by letters W and H
LONDON
WILLIAM HEINEMANN LTD
Launch
Published 1931 at 25/
Description
Height: 10 in; 25.4 cm
Width: 6 in; 15.24 cm
[a]6, A-II8; pp [xii], 626, plus eighteen inserted plates not paginated;
- white endpapers;
- all edges trimmed;
- bound in dark blue cloth, publisher’s device in blind in lower right corner of back cover, front cover plain,
- spine gilt lettered
THE
LIFE & LETTERS
OF
SIR EDMUND
GOSSE
EVAN
CHARTERIS
HEINEMANN
Contribution by GM
An account in his own words of his suggestion to Gosse for the writing of Father and Son, pp 308-10. Among the illustrations is a photograph of GM, Gosse and Haddon Chambers “In William Heinemann’s Garden at Ockham, 1919” facing p 424 and a caricature, “Presentation of the Bust,” by Max Beerbohm, which includes GM among its subjects, facing p 444.
Samuel C. Chew in A Literary History of England (New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1948, p. 1604), says that Gosse "was aided in its composition by George Moore," but Charles Burkhart in "George Moore and Father and Son" in Nineteenth-Century Fiction, June 1960, demonstrates, by quotations from GM's letters to Gosse, "that Moore's share in the writing … was limited to very active encouragement and to generally unheeded advice."
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