On the Shoulders of Giants - A Shandean Postscript. With a Foreword by Catherine Drinker Bowen
New York: A Harbinger Book / Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1965. Paperback. [xii], 90p., illustrated with a frontis facsimile of the Isaac Newton mss, softbound in 8x5.5 inch decorated wraps. A sound clean copy, entirely unmarked in any way. Humorous scholarship, inspired by the wanderings of Lawrence Sterne's "Tristram Shandy". Introduced most enthusiastically by Bowen and endorsed by Jacques Barzun, Lionel Trilling, and E.G. Boring.
Cat.No: 329998
Price: $20.00
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