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A Bookman’s Letters
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Author: ROBERTSON NICOLL, W.
Published by: Hodder & Stoughton (London, 1913).
8vo, half-title, title in red & black, xi, 438p. Tan cloth, gilt to board and spine.
Essays on literary topics by Scots Non-Conformist founder of the British Weekly Newspaper and first editor of The Bookman – hence the title. A good, clean copy.
Cat. ref.: 59
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