The Seven Deadly Sinnes Of London

New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1922. First edition thus. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. Original paper on boards with cloth spine lettered in dark blue. Edited by H. F. B. Brett-Smith. From the Percy Reprint series, this one being Number 4. Some few pages roughly opened but the majority of the book remains un-opened. "The Seven Deadly Sinnes was a briliant development of the theme revived by Nashe... The booklet abounds in good humour and felicitous conceits. Above all, we have graphic views of the city, both in the hurry and rush of mid-day traffic, and glimmering with its taverns and gloaming alleys in the night time." (The Cambridge History of English Literature.).

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