Tauchnitz Edition British and American Authors . Matthew Arnold Vol 2859 1916 PB

Description: Essays in Criticism: Second Series by Matthew Arnold In One Volume Tauchnitz Edition Collection of British and American Authors Vol. 2859 Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz copy right 1892 . 1916 Printing . . Collectible paperbound books of literature, criticism, essays and letters. Contents . . Milton . Thomas Gray . John Keats . Wordsworth . Byron . Shelley . Count Leo Tolstoi . Amiel Matthew Arnold (24 December 1822 – 15 April 1888) was an English poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools. He was the son of Thomas Arnold, the famed headmaster of Rugby School, and brother to both Tom Arnold, literary professor, and William Delafield Arnold, novelist and colonial administrator. Matthew Arnold has been characterised as a sage writer, a type of writer who chastises and instructs the reader on contemporary social issues. Tauchnitz was the name of a family of German printers and publishers. They published English language literature for distribution on the European continent outside Great Britain, including initial serial publications of novels by Charles Dickens. Though copyright protection did not exist between nations in the 19th century, Tauchnitz paid the authors for the works they published, and agreed to limit their sales of English-language books to the European continent, as authors like Dickens or Bulwer-Lytton had separate arrangements for publication and sale in Great Britain. Bernhard Tauchnitz started the Collection of British and American Authors in 1841, a reprint series familiar to anglophone travellers on the continent of Europe. These inexpensive paperbound editions, a direct precursor to mass-market paperbacks, were begun in 1841, and eventually ran to over 5,000 volumes. In 1868 he began the Collection of German Authors, followed in 1886 by the Students' Tauchnitz Editions. The two authors who first attracted Tauchnitz's attention were Dickens and Lytton with the novels Pickwick Papers and Pelham which appeared in 1841. Twenty-two years later, in 1863, the five-hundredth title of the series was published under the title Five Centuries of the English Language and Literature. In 1869, an English-language edition of The New Testament, exhibiting the differences between the original Alexandrine, Sinaitic and Vatican manuscripts, was the one-thousandth title. It was dedicated by the Baron "To my English and American Authors, as a Token of Esteem for the Living, and a Tribute of Remembrance to the Dead." In 1881, the two-thousandth title, Of English Literature in the Reign of Victoria by Henry Morley was issued, in which facsimiles of the signatures of all the authors who had been published in the Tauchnitz series appeared. By 1901, 3,500 books had been published. It was not only a catalogue of English works. German and French works filled a large space as well as the Greek and Latin classics which had been a speciality of his uncle Karl. His German edition of the Bible was a scholarly work. It included contributions from important German scholars including, Karl Gottfried Wilhelm Theile, Seligman Baer, Franz Delitzsch, Constantin von Tischendorf and Oscar von Gebhardt, together with the Bibliotheca Patrum. Scientific works, books on jurisprudence, and dictionaries covering most of the world's major languages, filled the catalogue as well. The publishers amassed a huge amount of correspondence from authors of the day which amounted to an important Who's Who of the time. Letters of thanks and dedications from many authors were in the Tauchnitz archive. These included letters from Harrison Ainsworth, Wilkie Collins, Maria Susanna Cummins, Louisa M. Alcott, Marguerite Gardiner, Baron Lytton, Dinah Craik, Thomas Carlyle, Charles Dickens, Benjamin Disraeli, Gladstone, Thomas Babington Macaulay, George Henry Lewes, George Eliot, Nathaniel Hawthorn, Washington Irving, Longfellow, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charles Lever, Thackeray, Charles Reade, Tennyson, Robert Browning, Gerald Du Maurier, James Payn and Robert Louis Stevenson. Paperbound edition printed in 1916 . Pencil marks in the margins by a scholar . 264 pages . cover wear . a small tear when the front cover folds . but all in all, a nice copy printed on good paper and well aged . . . . Please ask any and all questions before submitting a bid. Buyers, save money on shipping with multiple purchases in the same order! After purchases, please request total amount from seller and you will be sent a combined invoice with revised shipping amount. Media Mail shipping is surface mail and is much slower to Hawaii and Alaska. Select an expedited option if you must get it there quickly. Get a refund of $2.50 after purchase if you select USPS Priority Express Flat Rate mail.

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