Let Dons Delight, being Variations on a Theme in an Oxford Common-Room.

Knox (Ronald A.)

Let Dons Delight, being Variations on a Theme in an Oxford Common-Room.

Description: FIRST EDITION, a few very faint spots to prelims and the occasional outbreak within, pp. [viii], 280, crown 8vo, original black cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt (now dulled), top edge yellow, edges faintly spotted, free endpapers likewise (and a little browned), dustjacket, very good

Publication Details: Sheed & Ward, 1939

Notes: 'A kind of Cavalcade of Oxford religious and social opinions', in which the narrator - asleep in a common-room - hears the conversations there from seven ages (beginning in 1588 and then at fifty year intervals), before waking to that in his own time.The author's 'secular masterpiece' (ODNB), set in the fictional college of Simon Magus; the author had attended Balliol, before a fellowship at neighbouring Trinity College.