ORWELL (George). &
REYNOLDS (Reginald)., Editors.
British Pamphleteers. Volume I: From the Sixteenth Century to the French Revolution. Volume II: From the French Revolution to the Present Time.
The texts of forty-five pamphlets, each with an explanatory note of the historical circumstances for publication. George Orwell edited and contributed the introduction to volume I, which was published in November 1948. His death in January 1950 led to A. J. P. Taylor replacing him as joint editor and writing the introduction for volume II, which was published in 1951.
From the library of Orwell scholar and former UCL deputy librarian Ian Angus, with his neat pencilled ownership to the front free endpapers of both volumes. Angus was the co-editor of Orwell’s Collected Journalism, Essays and Letters published in 1968 and also later contributed to editing the enormous 20-volume edition of Orwell’s Complete Works published 1997-8.
A very good set: Vol. 1 with faint spotting and offsetting to endpapers, jacket price clipped with small chipping to head and tail of spine panel; Vol. 2 internally clean with only minor shelf wear to jacket.
