Description: This is a handsome, antique set of "Half-Hours with the Best Authors" selected and arranged with short biographical and critical notices by Charles Knight. 1853; John Wiley; New York. Complete set in four volumes. The set is nicely bound in three-quarter leather with marbled covers, gilt lettering and decorations and five raised bands on the spine, marbled end papers, and gilt page edges on all sides of the text block. Each volume has a list of Contents at the front; there is an Index at the back of Volume IV. The volumes contain works of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry from dozens of notable writers including John James Audubon, Jane Austen, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Tacitus, Dante Alighieri, Cervantes, Charles Dickens, Lord Byron, William Shakespeare, Goethe, John Milton, Oliver Goldsmith, Plato, William Makepeace Thackeray, William Penn, John Locke, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Sir Walter Scott, Washington Irving, Jonathan Swift, Daniel Defoe, Alfred Tennyson, Daniel Webster, Plutarch, Alexander Pope, John Keats, Izaak Walton, Machiavelli, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Robert Burns, and many more.
Price: 150 USD
Location: Merrimack, New Hampshire
End Time: 2024-12-03T20:11:00.000Z
Shipping Cost: 6.45 USD
Product Images
Item Specifics
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: New York
Language: English
Author: Charles Knight
Publisher: John Wiley
Topic: Literature
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Subject: Literature & Fiction
Original/Facsimile: Original
Year Printed: 1853
