Description

Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Some light tanning due to age. Year 1865. Hardcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> YIELDING to no one in love for the beautiful in Art and in Nature or in veneration for whatever is great and good and noble in the human family the preparation of the life of the man whose works are pre-eminently entitled to be classed with the former and whose whole life and character so imperatively demand for him a proud place amongst the latter has to me been a “labour of love” and one in which I have taken more than usual delight. The task has been one of serious labour but fully com- mensurate with that labour has been the pleasure I have felt in prosecuting and completing my task. To me in literary matters it has ever appeared that the heavier the toil the pleasanter will be the result. There is in my opinion but little credit and less satisfaction in accomplishing a work which takes no trouble. It is the hard literary digging -the throwing up of heavy spadesful of soil in the hope of finding even one little bulb which may germinate and add its beauties to those that are already garnered or are yet to come which brings with it enjoyment and satisfaction. It is but small merit to compile a work from data and materials ready “cut and dried” to one’s hand. It is the getting together of those materials that constitutes the credit and brings with it a gratifying reward. (MP)