Letters of William Shenstone

U.S.A.: University of Minnesota Press, 1939. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. "William Shenstone (1714-63), English poet, best known for his Pastoral Ballad and The School- Mistress, has appealed to many generations of persons of diverse tastes- as poet, as landscape gardener, as representative country gentleman of the eighteenth century, as prose stylist, as literary precursor of the Romantic Movement, and finally as a well-connected man of his times, whose writings, and especially whose letters, throw a great many illuminating sidelights upon the work and lives of his greater contemporaries". Hardcover. 8vo. Edited by Duncan Mallam. University of Minnesota Press 1939. 473 pp. including index. Slightly sunned. Includes Mylar protective covering. Previous owner's attractive nameplate on front free endpaper..