A selection of prose in English, from Chaucer to Rupert Brooke, hardcover published by OUP/ Clarendon Press, originally published in 1925, in this edition 1930. 
1092 pages, previous owners name in pencil to blank front endpaper, ( which shows moderate to heavy age spotting and foxing) 
Titles in gold to front and spine, some of the inner pages - pages 9 to 64 show creasing to edges ( as if bumped )  no inscriptions or marks. 
As detaied an introduction to prose in English to 1914 as existed at that time, including a wide range of ( predominately male ) authors , extracts from letters, essays, the bible , novels, jornalism, short stories, elegies, and all manner of writing. 
College prize label on inside front pastedown ( in Latin) 
 
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