A Critical History of the English Familiar Essay, 1597-1833
FAIN: FB-11746-73
Fred V. Randel
Regents of the University of California, San Diego (La Jolla, CA 92093-0013)
An intensive critical and historical study of the major familiar essays published in England between Bacon's introduction of the genre in 1597 and Lamb's Last Essays of Elia in 1833.