Essays and Studies [The Personal Heresy]

A very interesting group of six [6] volumes of the Essays and Studies by Members of the English Association Journal, issued between 1932 and 1942, all in their original journal form. As follows:

[1] HADOW, W. H. [Collected by]. Essays and Studies by Members of the English Association. Vol. XVII. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1932. Containing C.S. Lewis' essay "What Chaucer Really Did to Il Filostrato”. Publisher's original green cloth, gilt lettering to spine, top edge stained; with unclipped dust wrapper. The first journal appearance of Lewis’ early essay which includes an aspect of what would become his contribution to The Personal Heresy debate, namely his conviction that much of the medieval age was closer to the world of universal ideas than the Renaissance was and, therefore, to be preferred. This is an ex-library copy with slight bumping to spine tips, spine cocked, and library stamp to FFEP; else clean and uninscribed. In an unclipped dust wrapper that is heavily tanned with much of spine missing and chipping to extremities. 

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The origins of The Personal Heresy - The first three journal appearances (1934, 1935, and 1936) of the essays by C. S. Lewis and Dr. E. M. W. (Eustace Mandeville Wetenhall) Tillyard that would later be expanded with three additional essays and consolidated as The Personal Heresy (first published as a stand-alone volume in 1939 by Oxford University Press). These volumes document the debate at the point of its initial public exchange and their very first iteration in print:

[2] NICHOL SMITH, D. [Collected by]. Essays and Studies by Members of the English Association. Vol. XIX. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1934. Containing C.S. Lewis' essay "The Personal Heresy in Criticism”. Publisher's original green cloth, gilt lettering to spine, top edge stained, with erratum slip inserted after page 40; with no dust wrapper. A copy with slight bumping to spine tips, spine a tad cocked and covers a little bowed, with a little external wear; else clean and uninscribed.

[3] COOKSON, George [Collected by]. Essays and Studies by Members of the English Association. Vol. XX. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1935. Containing Dr. E. M. W. Tillyard's essay "The Personal Heresy in Criticism: A Rejoinder”. Publisher's original green cloth, gilt lettering to spine, top edge stained; with no dust wrapper. This is an ex-library copy with slight bumping to spine tips and some external wear (including a mark and library number to spine), spine cocked, library inserts to FFEP and pastedown, and a couple of penciled inscriptions throughout; else clean and uninscribed.

[4] READ, Herbert [Collected by]. Essays and Studies by Members of the English Association. Vol. XXI. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1936. Containing C.S. Lewis' essay "Open Letter to Dr. Tillyard”. Unrelated but equally interesting, this volume also includes the first appearance in print of T.S. Eliot's famous essays that critiqued Milton’s verse as having a detrimental influence on later English poetry, "A Note on the Verse of John Milton". Publisher's original green cloth, gilt lettering to spine, top edge stained; with no dust wrapper. This is an ex-library copy with slight bumping to spine tips and some external wear (including library number to spine), spine cocked, andlibrary insert to FFEP; else clean and uninscribed.

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[5] BINYON, Laurence [Collected by]. Essays and Studies by Members of the English Association. Vol. XXIV (1938). Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1939. Containing C.S. Lewis' essay "The Fifteenth-Century Heroic Line”. A focused study exploring the nature and mechanics of English verse in the fifteenth century. Publisher's original green cloth, gilt lettering to spine, top edge stained; with unclipped dust wrapper. This is a copy with slight bumping to spine tips and offsetting to prelims; clean and uninscribed. In an unclipped dust wrapper that is heavily tanned with spine tips missing, spine more darkened than the flaps, and a little chipping to extremities. 

[6] SMITH, , Nowell Charles [Collected by]. Essays and Studies by Members of the English Association. Vol. XXVII (1942). Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1942. Containing C.S. Lewis' essay "Psycho-Analysis and Literary Criticism”. Publisher's original green cloth, gilt lettering to spine, top edge stained; with no dust wrapper. This is an ex-library copy with spine and part of the panels slightly discoloured, with slight bumping and wear to spine tips (with library number stamped on the spine), foxing to edges and prelims but only sporadically throughout, and with library inserts to FFEP and pastedown; else clean and uninscribed.