Author Name: Garnett, Dr Richard (ed); Vallee, M. Leon; Brandl, Dr. Alois; and Mitchell, Donald G.
Title: The International Library of Famous Literature: Selections from the World's Great Writers Ancient, Mediaeval, and Modern, with Biographical and Explanatory Notes and Critical Essays By Many Eminent Writers (Vol XX)
Binding: Half-Leather
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Edition: First Edition
Size: 6.5 x 9.5"
Publisher: London The Standard 1899
Seller ID: 005185
Vol XX only of 20 volume set. Tissue-protected colour frontis and 18 other plates. Edited by Dr. Richard Garnett, C.B. of the British Museum (1851-1899) in association with M. Leon Vallee (Librarian of the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris), Dr. Alois Brandl (Professor of Literature at the Imperial University, Berlin) and Donald G. Mitchell (IK Marvel), the Author of "Reveries of a Bachelor". Includes essays by: Armando Palacio Valdes, F. Marion Crawford, James Thomson, Edward Everett Hale, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Francis Bret Harte, John Godfrey Saxe, Israel Zangwell, William Allingham, Edmond About, Benito Perez Galdos, Edgar Fawcett, Henry Thomas Buckle, William Ewart Gladstone, Lew Wallace, Edmondo De Amicis, Bayard Taylor, Marie Henri Beyle, Richard Whately, Anatole France, John T. Trowbridge, Alice Cary, Louisa May Alcott, Thomas Dunn English, Richard Harding Davis, John Boyle O'Reilly, Octave Thanet, Mary Mapes-Dodge, Gilbert Parker, Joseph A. deGobineau, Edouard Douwes Dekker, Massimo T. d'Azeglio, Alphonse Daudet, Edward Olney Kirk, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Sidney Lanier, Mrs Burton Harrison, Harriet Prescott Spofford, Wendell Phillips, Rebecca Harding Davis, Ernst Haeckel, William Black, Sir Walter Besant, Edward Payson Roe, Arthur Morrison, Silas Weir Mitchell, Owen Wister, Helen H. Gardener, Henry Van Dyke, Justin McCarthy, Julian Hawthorne, Anne Thackeray Ritchie, John Bright, Theodore Winthrop, Jessie Fothergill, and William Roscoe. Covers (brown half leather over marbelled boards) have 5-banded spine with gilt rules and titles with spine splitting from front board and are worn and rubbed. Textblock is clean and tight except upper corner of half title page is cut away with light foxing throughout.
Literature, LitCrit, Literary Criticism, Antiquarian, Victoriana, Armando Palacio Valdes, F. Marion Crawford, James Thomson, Edward Everett Hale, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Francis Bret Harte, John Godfrey Saxe, Israel Zangwell, William Allingham, Edmond About, Benito Perez Galdos, Edgar Fawcett, Henry Thomas Buckle, William Ewart Gladstone, Lew Wallace, Edmondo De Amicis, Bayard Taylor, Marie Henri Beyle, Richard Whately, Anatole France, John T. Trowbridge, Alice Cary, Louisa May Alcott, Thomas Dunn English, Richard Harding Davis, John Boyle O'Reilly, Octave Thanet, Mary Mapes-Dodge, Gilbert Parker, Joseph A. deGobineau, Edouard Douwes Dekker, Massimo T. d'Azeglio, Alphonse Daudet, Edward Olney Kirk, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Sidney Lanier, Mrs Burton Harrison, Harriet Prescott Spofford, Wendell Phillips, Rebecca Harding Davis, Ernst Haeckel, William Black, Sir Walter Besant, Edward Payson Roe, Arthur Morrison, Silas Weir Mitchell, Owen Wister, Helen H. Gardener, Henry Van Dyke, Justin McCarthy, Julian Hawthorne, Anne Thackeray Ritchie, John Bright, Theodore Winthrop, Jessie Fothergill, William Roscoe
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