Author: BATES, Jerome Paine
Title: The Imperial Highway; or, the Road to Fortune and Happiness with Biographies of Self-Made Men. Their Business Traits Qualities and Habits
Description: Chicago, The National Library Association, 1886. Hardcover. Small 4to. Quarter brown calf with gilt spine lettering and brown textured paper over beveled boards with gilt lettering. xiv, 811pp. Tissue-guarded frontispiece, full-page illustrations, marbled endpapers, marbled page edges. Very good. Quite minor binding wear only, else internally tight and near fine. Attractive and tight early printing of this hefty combination biographical dictionary/self-help/inspirational/get-rich-quick manual. Subtitle continues: "Among the Hundreds of Distinguished Minds Whose Thoughts Enrich These Pages, Are Washington, Franklin, Longfellow, Shakespeare, Milton, Bacon, Smiles, Madame Montague, Scott, Chesterfield, Holland, Irving, Mrs. Hemans, Carlyle, Goethe, Schiller, Madame De Stael, Wellington, Wordsworth, Dr. Johnson, Lamb, Beaconsfield, Mrs. Stowe, Emerson, Dickens, Lincoln, Garfield, and Many Others." Talk about hodgepodge!.

Keywords: Literary Biography Biography


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