The Library of Choice Literature: Prose and Poetry Selected from the Most Admired Authors
Philadelphia: Gebbie & Co., Publishers, 1881; 1882. First edition thus. Hardcover. 8 vol. Large 8vo. For full pagination, please inquire. Brown publisher's cloth over beveled-edge boards with black decorations and gilt lettering on each front board and spine; all edges gilt. Brown coated endpapers and pastedowns. Each volume illustrated with a frontispiece, an engraved title page, and with a few engraved plates. Title pages in red and black. Illustrated with a total of 66 engravings on steel. Edited with biographical and critical notes by Ainsworth R. Spofford and Charles Gibbon. Near Fine. Item #000014174
A contemporary name on the first blank leaf (volume one only) and light rubbing to volume one's front board. Volume five with light rubbing to its front board.
Price: $250.00