
This is an interesting old book, Library of
the World's Best Literature Ancient and Modern This set is complete in 45
volumes, The Century Edition limited and numbered 503 of 1000 sets. Edited
by Charles Dudley Warner, with over 18,000 pages of in depth information on
literature from the ancient to the modern, including many works now nearly
unobtainable. With works by Plato, Homer, Thomas Aquinas, Beecher, Defoe,
Dostoevsky, Edgar Allan Poe, Melville, Mark Twain, George Washington,
William Shakespeare, and hundreds of other authors, also a synopses of noted
works. Profusely illustrated throughout, with each volume having a full
color frontispiece with captioned tissue guard, as well as plates, drawings,
portraits, and photogravures throughout. Also includes Songs, Hymns, and
Lyrics, A Dictionary of Authors, A Synopsis of Noted Books and a General
Index. Published in 1897 by The International Society of New York. and bound in
publisher's original cloth with paper labels along the spine. 4to format
approx. 10 1/2 X 8 inches and in Good
condition with some wear and soiling to the covers, bindings all solid and
tight with a a very few volumes showing cracking to the hinges inside
covers. all contents bright and clean throughout. A rare find!
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