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Studies of a Biographer.

STEPHEN, Leslie (1832-1904).

London: Duckworth and Co., 1898. [Meta-Biography] FIRST EDITION. Two volumes. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[8]; 267; [1]; pp.[8]; 284. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spines. Top edges gilt; others untrimmed. Offsetting to endpapers; some spotting throughout. Cloth largely sunned and toned to brown; light rubbing. Very good. A series of essays on the art of biography, and on particular well-known biographies, by the father of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell. Item #53658

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