KNOX, VICESIMUS (ED.) ; PERCIVAL, JAMES GATES (ED.).

Elegant Extracts; or, Useful and Entertaining Passages, from the Best English Authors and Translations.: A new edition prepared by James G. Percival.

Boston, Benjamin B. Mussey, 1842. Six large octavo volumes in blind-stamped and gilt ornamented orange-tan cloth; approx. 400 pages per volumes, b/w frontispieces and plates (engravings of authors). Hardcover. . Mild wear and sunning to exterior; some foxing to margins of a few pages as well as first and last few pages. All in all, a decent, tight set. Very Good+, age considered., Contents: v.1-2. Prose.--v.3-4. Epistles.--v.5-6. Poetry. || English literature -- 18th century ; Anthologies.

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Book number: 14018

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Great Britain Philosophy, Theory, Thought