8vo, publisher’s navy blue cloth, gilt titles, black topstain, 696pp. True first impression, date on title page with no additional printings listed. List of 12 titles stated opposite title page, three of which are noted as published, and 12 titles listed to rear flap with four mentioned as published. First issue brown lettered, unpriced dust jacket age toned with minimal wear to edges, toning to fore edge of text block, light rubbing to endpapers. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. A survey of 16th English Literature (excluding drama) by C.S. Lewis, Magdalen fellow at Oxford, and the completion of the Clark Lectures, Trinity College, Dublin, 1944. Oxford History of English Literature Volume III. A scarce first impression in dust jacket. A very good copy in mylar.