Description: 4 VOLUMES, Selmar Hess, 1892, NY. Matching, all dated 1892. Olive green with gilt decoration and titling, gold and black design on covers and spine; gold spine and cover title. Silk endpapers. Large books (11.5 x 9.5 x 2") Gilt edges all around. Filled with wonderful photogravures and etchings, wood engravings and typogravures. Most are b&w except for frontspieces. Some plates with printed tissue guards. A collection of names and brief accounts of names used in allusions and references, whether by poets or prose writers, to furnish the plot of popular dramas, the story of epic poems and the outline of well-known tales. Lovely covers with little wear except to corners and top/bottom of spine, bindings tight, text clean, slightly yellowed. Gift inscription (1895) inside front cover of Volume 1. Illustrations of such items as Hiawatha, Marie Antoinette, Puss-in-Boots (Gustave Dore), Don Quixote (Gustave Dore), Hamlet, Joan of Arc, King Lear, Ichabod Crane, Cinderella (Gustave Dore), Samson & Delilah, Sleeping Beauty (Gustave Dore), Virgil (Eugene Dalacroix), and many, many, many more. Literally an illustration about every 5-10 pgs. If you love illustration and art, you will appreciate these beautiful books.
Price: 125 USD
Location: Aurora, Colorado
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Shipping Cost: 16.99 USD
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Year Printed: 1892
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Topic: Drama
Binding: Leather
Author: Rev E Cogham Brewer LLD
Subject: Literature & Fiction
Original/Facsimile: Original
Language: English
Publisher: Selmar Hess
Place of Publication: New york
Special Attributes: 1st Edition
