Critical Essays: Contributed to the Eclectic Review

London: H.G. Bohn, 1856. First edition (presumed; no earlier dates stated). Volume II only (of two). Octavo in blind-stamped, ornamented dark green cloth (standard Bohn's issue); 536p; index, adverts; 18 cm. Very lightly foxed; light wear and rubbing to exterior edges and spine head; else a Near Fine(-) very crisp and unopened copy. Hardcover.

Uncommon thus, unopened. Bohn's standard library, 41 (series) // Essays; English; Eclectic Review. // Wikipedia says: "John Foster (1770-1843) was an English essayist, son of a weaver, born in the parish of Halifax, Yorkshire, and educated for the ministry at the Baptist college in Bristol. After serving as a minister for several years, he chose to devote himself to literature. He contributed nearly 200 articles to the Eclectic Review. He wrote: Essays, in a Series of Letters (1804), and Essay on the Evils of Popular Ignorance (1820), in which he urges the necessity of a national system of education."