A bibliography of the Theophrastan character in English with several portrait characters

by Chester Noyes Greenough

Reprint of the 1947 edition, XVIII in the Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature Series. Prepared for publication and introduced by J. Milton French. "Character books," works offering the reader moral edification by describing aspects of human nature to avoid, were inspired by the "Moral Characters" of Theophrastus, a pupil of Aristotle, and popular in England and France in the early 17th century. This is a catalogue raisonné of such works published in English, arranged chronologically from 1495 to 1941.Also included are works of uncertain date. With a appendix of titles considered but rejected, author, title and subject indices. xii, 347 pages. cloth.. large 8vo..

347 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1947

About the author

1874-1938