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...Enghteenth Century Novels contains three works: Samuel Johnson's "Rasselas", Horace Walpole's "Castle of Otranto", and "Vathek" by Beckford. Their interest is more for the specialist in eighteenth century novels and Gothic romances than the first mentioned volume which makes good reading even for those not at all interested in its historical significance. Rasselas in perhaps the best of the three novels and a reading of it will prove the charm of Dr. Jhonson's writing which critics are apt to pass over in their exposure of the novel's faults...
There will also be first edition of John Gay's "Beggars' Opera," "Polly," and "Trivia," Beckford's "Vathek," a Thackery's "Vanity Fair," with a suppressed plate, Oscar Wilde's first French edition of, Salome with an inscription giving it to Degas, and "Lord Chesterfield's Letters." These are merely a few of the first editions that will be shown...
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