"Pocket edition" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Schlosser strangely considers 'spun out to an intolerable extent.' Many evil things might be said of Gulliver; but not this. The captain is anything but tedious. And, indeed, it becomes a question of mere mensuration, that can be settled in a moment. A year or two since I had in my hands a pocket edition, comprehending all the four parts of the worthy skipper's adventures within a single volume of 420 pages. Some part of the space was also wasted on notes, often very idle. Now the 1st part contains two separate voyages (Lilliput and ...
— The Notebook of an English Opium-Eater • Thomas de Quincey
... a beautiful Library Pocket Edition, printed on good paper, clear type, cloth bound covers modern flat back, with title, and the author's portrait and signature embellished on the ...
— Wholesale Price List of Newspapers and Periodicals • D. D. Cottrell's Subscription Agency
... edition of Dickens' works was issued in 1847. The standard edition is that of Chapman & Hall, London, who were the original publishers of Pickwick. One of the best of the many editions of Dickens is the Macmillan Pocket edition with reproductions of the original covers of the monthly parts of the novels as they appeared, the original illustrations by Cruikshank, Leech, "Phiz" (Hablot Browne) and others, and valuable and interesting introductions by Charles Dickens the younger. Another good edition is in the World's Classics, ...
— Modern English Books of Power • George Hamlin Fitch |
