mylar cover
With gorgeous Philip Gough dust jacket in mylar
1/2 leather and marbled paper
Chapters on subjects such as Schoolboys and Schoolgirls
Slight wear to cover
11714 London mylar coverWith chapters by period Medieval, Renaissance, Augustan, Regency, Brave New World. Features such notables as Shakespeare, Jonson, Wycherly, Dryden, Pope, Austen, Peacock, Swift, Fielding, more. Attempts to develop a theory of comedy, to set comedy in relation to culture and chronological history. The section on Peacock and Austen deals convincingly with Austen as a comic writer. UC Press Berkeley 1975. HB, dj. USED. $22. 00