Лондон, 1913 год. Macmillan and Co., Limited. Издательский переплет.
Сохранность хорошая. In the following collection will be found nothing that was published before 1801 or after 1900.
I have attempted, within the limits of space and of copyright, to give in the prose of the best writers a microcosm of Anglo-Saxon life during that period. The limits of date are, of course, arbitrary, since conditions of social change and intellectual movement do not appear and vanish in perfect synchronism with round periods of the calendar.
But some limit had to be set, if only that the reader might know the extent of the country explored and the epoch for which the book stood as sampler; and work earlier than 1801 was likely to have an antique flavour of interest and value only to the student specialising in our literature, while any effort to keep up to date would have rendered necessary the almost impossible business achievement of a yearly recasting. …