ISBN10: 0719542464, ISBN13: 9780719542466, [publisher: John Murray Publishers Ltd, London] Softcover This scarce set is in fine, unread condition, bright, white, tight and square, in illustrated card covers as issued. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. Where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased charges will be quoted. Please note that the combined weight of threse three volumes is 1.75 Kgs. The Lyttelton/Hart-Davis Letters are a correspondence between two literary Englishmen, George Lyttelton (1883 - 1962) and Rupert Hart-Davis (1907 - 99), written between 1955 and Lyttelton's death, and published by Hart-Davis in six volumes between 1978 and 1984. George Lyttelton had been a master at Eton College, where he encouraged the literary tastes of the teenaged Hart-Davis during the latter's final year (1925–26) there. After Hart-Davis left Eton their paths diverged, but they embarked on a weekly correspondence in 1955, by which time Lyttelton had retired and Hart-Davis had become an eminent (if not outstandingly profitable) publisher. The letters continued without a break for the rest of Lyttelton's life. In 1978, 16 years after Lyttelton's death, Hart-Davis began publishing the correspondence, and by 1984 all the letters had been published, in six volumes. One reviewer wrote "Lyttelton's wit and huge fund of literary ...