Description: This is a Civil War-era set of "Half-Hours with the Best Authors" edited by Charles Knight. 1866; Frederick Warne & Co.; London. Complete Set in four volumes. Each volume features an engraved frontispiece (with tissue guard) and in-text illustrations. The set is nicely bound in three-quarter leather with marbled covers, gilt lettering and five raised bands on the spine, marbled end papers, and red-speckled page edges on all sides. "Including Biographical and Critical Notices" by Charles Knight. Each volume has a list of Contents at the front; Volume IV has an "Index of Subjects" and an "Index of Authors" at the back. The volumes contain works of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry from dozens of notable writers including Jane Austen, Benjamin Franklin, Charlotte Bronte, Cervantes, John Ruskin, Charles Dickens, Shakespeare, Daniel Webster, Alexander von Humboldt, Washington Irving, Sir Walter Scott, Lord Byron, Ben Jonson, Oliver Goldsmith, Plato, Dante Alighieri, Alexander Pope, Lord Bacon, John Milton, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Jonathan Swift, Elizabeth Gaskell, Izaak Walton, Robert Burns, Chaucer, Daniel Defoe, George Eliot, Goethe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, John Locke, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William Penn, Tacitus, William Makepeace Thackeray, Lord Alfred Tennyson, and many more.
Price: 125 USD
Location: Merrimack, New Hampshire
End Time: 2024-12-05T21:57:10.000Z
Shipping Cost: 6.45 USD
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Restocking Fee: No
Return shipping will be paid by: Seller
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 60 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Binding: Leather
Place of Publication: London
Language: English
Special Attributes: Illustrated
Author: Charles Knight
Publisher: Frederick Warne & Co.
Topic: Literature
Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
Subject: Literature & Fiction
Original/Facsimile: Original
Year Printed: 1866
