Woolf, Virginia — The Common Reader

London, Leonard & Virginia, 1933. Hardcover. A green casebound book with gilt text on the spine. 305 pages. Contents are as follows: The common reader -- The Pastons and Chaucer -- On not knowing Greek -- The Elizabethan lumber room -- Notes on an Elizabethan play -- Montaigne -- The Duchess of Newcastle -- Rambling around Evelyn -- Defoe -- Addison -- Lives of the obscure : 1. Taylors and Edgeworths ; 2. Laetitia Pilkington -- Jane Austen -- Modern fiction -- Jane Eyre and Wuthering heights -- George Eliot -- The Russian point of view -- Outlines : 1. Miss Mitford ; 2. Bentley ; Lady Dorothy Nevill ; 4. Archbishop Thomson -- The patron and the crocus -- The modern essay -- Joseph Conrad -- How it strikes a contemporary. VG-: Rubbing and wear to the boards. Bend to the spine. Small tear in the fabric at the top of the spine. Previous owner notations in graphite on the end pages. Slight tanning to the pages. Majority clean body pages and solid binding.