Correction BLUNDEN was the author of the 1941 Hardy title
Correction and MACMILLAN in the publisher line on the BL search page
"Jbrodie1750" <jbrodie1750 RemoveThis @aol.com> wrote in message
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> I thought my 39 volume set of the "English Men Of Letters" series was
complete
Record 32 of 34 item(s)
Title: English Men of Letters. Edited by John Morley.
Main heading: MORLEY. John. Viscount Morley of Blackburn
Additional headings: SQUIRE. Sir. John Collings
Publication details: 68 vol. Macmillan & Co.: London, 1878-1919. 8o.
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Shelfmark: 2326.b.&bb.
Shelfmark: 2326.bb.16,etc.
Title: New Series. Edited by J. C. Squire.
Publication details: Macmillan & Co.: London, 1926- . 8o.
Notes: This set contains two editions of “Dryden” by George Saintsbury.
> until I came across a "Thomas Hardy" published in 1941. Does anyone know
how
> many volumes there are in the complete set and when the last volume was
> published?
>
> Many thanks for any information.
>
> Jonathan
>
> P.S. I did put this query into "Askjeeves.com" and came up with:
>
> "English Men: Chat, Flirt & Meet 8m Singles Today The Only Thing Missing
is
> You!"
>
> which really was not what I was after...
I have only a few of these myself a few of the blue triple
volumes, and one or two of the paperbound.
The British Library Catalogue lists only 34
This is going to the basic BL text search
<a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://blpc.bl.uk/adp0358aPaTextWelcome.jsp" target="_blank">http://blpc.bl.uk/adp0358aPaTextWelcome.jsp</a>
using START SEARCH
choosing ALL COLLECTIONS
and putting English Men of Letters in the Subject line
But some of them are quite late, R.L.Stephenson 1939.
A website on Morley, an interesting character in his own
right, claims the series was continued over two further series/decades.
How that squares with the following, or your own collection
I can't say.
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[ 1 ] Charles Lamb.
AINGER. Alfred. Master of the Temple
pp. x. 186. Macmillan & Co.: London, 1882. 8o.
[ 2 ] Crabbe.
AINGER. Alfred. Master of the Temple
pp. viii. 210. Macmillan & Co.: London, 1903. 8o.
[ 3 ] Walt Whitman.
BAILEY. John Cann
pp. v. 220. Macmillan & Co.: London, 1926. 8o.
[ 4 ] Edward Fitzgerald.
BENSON. Arthur Christopher
pp. vi. 207. Macmillan & Co.: London, 1905. 8o.
[ 5 ] Rossetti.
BENSON. Arthur Christopher
pp. ix. 238. Macmillan & Co.: London, 1904. 8o.
[ 6 ] Andrew Marvell.
BIRRELL. Right Hon.. Augustine
pp. vii. 242. Macmillan & Co.: London, 1905. 8o.
[ 7 ] William Hazlitt.
BIRRELL. Right Hon.. Augustine
pp. viii. 230. Macmillan & Co.: London, 1902. 8o.
[ 8 ] Thomas Hardy.
BLUNDEN. Edmund Charles
pp. ix. 286. Macmillan & Co.: London, 1941. 8o.
[ 9 ] William Blake.
BURDETT. Osbert Henry
pp. viii. 198. Macmillan & Co.: London, 1926. 8o.
[ 10 ] Robert Browning.
CHESTERTON. Gilbert Keith
pp. 207. Macmillan & Co.: London, 1903. 8o.
[ 11 ] Bacon.
CHURCH. Richard William. Dean of St. Paul's
pp. viii. 227. Macmillan & Co.: London, 1884. 8o.
[ 12 ] Spenser.
CHURCH. Richard William. Dean of St. Paul's
pp. viii. 181. Macmillan & Co.: London, 1880. 8o.
[ 13 ] Keats.
COLVIN. Sir. Sidney. Keeper of Prints and Drawings, British Museum
pp. xii. 233. Macmillan & Co.: London, 1887. 8o.
[ 14 ] Landor.
COLVIN. Sir. Sidney. Keeper of Prints and Drawings, British Museum
pp. viii. 224. Macmillan & Co.: London, 1881. 8o.
[ 15 ] Jane Austen.
CORNISH. Francis Warre
pp. xiii. 240. Macmillan & Co.: London, 1913. 8o.
[ 16 ] Herman Melville.
FREEMAN. John. Poet and Critic
pp. x. 200. Macmillan & Co.: London, 1926. 8o.
[ 17 ] Robert Louis Stevenson.
GWYNN. Stephen Lucius
pp. x. 267. Macmillan & Co.: London, 1939. 8o.
[ 18 ] John Ruskin.
HARRISON. Frederic
pp. viii. 216. Macmillan & Co.: London, 1902. 8o.
[ 19 ] Byron. (Seventh thousand.)
NICHOL. John. Professor of English Literature in the University of Glasgow
pp. viii. 216. Macmillan & Co.: London, 1880. 8o.
[ 20 ] Swinburne.
NICOLSON. Hon. Sir. Harold George. K.C.V.O.
pp. viii. 207. Macmillan & Co.: London, 1926. 8o.
[ 21 ] Samuel Pepys.
PONSONBY. Arthur Augustus William Harry. Baron Ponsonby
pp. xiii. 160. Macmillan & Co.: London, 1928. 8o.
[ 22 ] Thomas Love Peacock.
PRIESTLEY. John Boynton
pp. viii. 215. Macmillan & Co.: London, 1927. 8o.
[ 23 ] Dryden.
SAINTSBURY. George Edward Bateman
London: Macmillan & Co., 1881. pp. vi, 192. 20 cm.
[ 24 ] Edgar Allan Poe.
SHANKS. Edward Buxton
pp. x. 176. Macmillan & Co.: London, 1937. 8o.
[ 25 ] Ben Jonson.
SMITH. George Gregory
pp. vi. 310. Macmillan & Co.: London, 1919. 8o.
[ 26 ] Christina Rossetti.
STUART. Dorothy Margaret
pp. viii. 200. Macmillan & Co.: London, 1930. 8o.
[ 27 ] Horace Walpole.
STUART. Dorothy Margaret
pp. x. 229. Macmillan & Co.: London, 1927. 8o.
[ 28 ] Anthony Trollope.
WALPOLE. Sir. Hugh Seymour
pp. vii. 205. Macmillan & Co.: London, 1928. 8o.
[ 29 ] Dryden
Saintsbury. George Edward Bateman
London: Macmillan and Co., 1909. vi,196p; 18cm
[ 30 ] Goldsmith.
BLACK. William. Novelist
pp. vii. 160. Macmillan & Co.: London, 1878. 8o.
[ 31 ] Addison.
COURTHOPE. William John
pp. vi. 192. Macmillan & Co.: London, 1884. 8o.
[ 32 ] English Men of Letters. Edited by John Morley.
MORLEY. John. Viscount Morley of Blackburn
68 vol. Macmillan & Co.: London, 1878-1919. 8o.
[ 33 ] George Meredith.
PRIESTLEY. John Boynton
pp. vii. 204. Macmillan & Co.: London, 1926. 8o.
[ 34 ] Walt Whitman. English men of letters. John Bailey
Bailey. John
1926
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