LIBRARY OF THE WORLD'S BEST LITERATURE. ANCIENT AND MODERN. Illustrated with portraits of authors.
FIRST EDITION / FIRST PRINTING.
Bound in thick moroccan leather. The original thick leather bindings. These are heavy books. Ornate gilded spine. Top edge gilded. Floral design end-papers, laced with gilding. These are large and very heavy books at 10'' tall. Complete in 30 volumes, as stated on the title page. R.S. Peale and J. A. Hill, New York. 1896. FIRST EDITION. Edited by Warner, Charles Dudley.
VERY GOOD condition. Hinges fully attached and sound. Light general rubbing, some spines lighter, as shown, else MINT+ and Exceptionally Werll-Preserved. Near FINE interior. Clean, bright, crisp pages. Likely free of foxing. No writing or signs of previous ownership. Very tight and well preserved, despite size and weight.
(Associate editors; Mabie, Hamilton Wright; Runkle, Lucia Gilbert; and Warner, George H.)
Each volume includes a frontis protected by tissue.
Vol.1-27 Contains Ancient and Modern Literature.
Vol. 28 Contains on Hymns and Lyrics.
Vol. 29 contains a Biographical Dictionary.
Vol. 30 contains a synopsis of books and an index.
An immaculate, well preserved set. A spectacular collection of literature.
The perfect addition to any collection and a library on it's own.
A small sample of author's included John Adams, Aesop, Francis Bacon, Honore de Balzac, James Barrie, Lord Byron, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Mark Twain, Alexander Dumas, Rudyard Kipling, Benjamin Franklin, Victor Hugo, John Locke, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Sir Isaac Newton, Thomas Paine, Plato, Percy Shelley, Socrates, Jonathan Swift, William Makepeace Thackeray, Henry David Thoreau, Lyof Tolstoy, Voltaire, William Wordsworth, Adam Smith, Bronte, Hippocrates, Poe, Virgil, Plato, Homer... and thousands more of history's greatest writers both ancient and modern.
Each book will be individually wrapped and padded to ensure safe shipping.
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