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Title: Half Hours with the Best Authors
Description: London, Charles Knight, 1847-8. Leather. A complete collection of 'Half Hours With the Best Authors' published by Charles Knight, illustrated, complete as four volumes bound in two. Complete as four volumes in two. A collection of short biographies and a selection of the works of a variety of prominent authors. Authors discussed in this work include Johnson, Lord Bacon, Milton, Pope, de Foe, Lord Byron, Sir Walter Scott, Cowper, Wordsworth, Dryden, Swift, Addisno, and more. The work was intended to be read for half an hour each day of the year, with religious writers of universal acclaim being selected for Sundays. Each volume illustrated with a frontispiece and a vignette title page. Undated, dated from Jisc from a copy held at the British Library. In a half morocco binding with marbled paper to the boards. Externally, generally smart, with some loss of leather to the front board of Volume I/II. Light rubbing to the boards and spines. Minor fading to the spines. A little bumping to the extremities. Front hinge of of Volume I/II weak. Evidence of a label being formerly adhered to the front pastedowns. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean with just a couple of very light spots. Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Good .

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