Author: RIDPATH, JOHN CLARK
Title: The Ridpath Library of Universal Literature in Twenty-Five Volumes, Royal Edition de Luxe, Limited - Salesman's Sample/Prospectus Volume Only
Description: NY, Globe, 1899. 1899. Hardcover . Octavo, flexible leather covers, appx 275 pages, Fair. Spine half gone, hinges split, 3 pieces of tape holding covers on, covers badly chipped at edges. TEG, black end-papers, satinized free end-papers. Four-page time-line chart (Synchronistic Review of World Literature - 2000 B.C. to 19th Century) folds out from the rear of the book. Red letter lists of Poets, Theologians, Philosophers, Travelers, Novelists, Statesmen, Scientists, etc. Appx 25 each: photogravure portraits/scenes and lithographed portraits/works of art. Gravures include: Lincoln, Carlyle, Whitman, Longfellow, Tennyson, Niagara Falls, Napoleon, Dante, Spencer, Hugo, Scott, Voltaire. Specimen pages of articles, indexes. Fair.

Keywords: Literature Philosophy & Religion World History Art Science 19th Century