Mee, Arthur (1875-1943) and J.A. Hammerton (editors) - THE WORLD'S GREAT BOOKS First Volume (Pages 1-768).

London, Carmelite House 1910 approx. Plates (colour frontis + illustrated titlepage) + 6 further colour plates by E. Wall-Cousins + 6 plates printed in various mono-tints. . Large octavo blue ribbed cloth with gilt spine (covers with slight marks of former damp but spine in bright gilt and no marking) half title + frontispiece + title +768pp.Cutting from Manchester Guardian 1 Decmber 1910 laid in. Contents clean, book tight, no loose pages, no tears. *Works grouped in 8 catagories: Fiction, Life/Letters, History, Philosophy/Religion, Science, Poetry/Drama, Travel/adventure and Miscellaneous. Within each section the works are in alphabetical order of author, so this volume includes A & B authors for 5 groups with Science A-G & Miscellaneous A-E. The History section is the only one with grouping by chronology. Thus Authors here include Josephus, Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon et al. *A short biography of the author precedes each book here reduced to its quintessence, thereby tempting the reeader to further investigation.

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