Author: Charles F Horne (Ed)
Title: Great Men and Famous Women: A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of the Lives of More Than 200 of the Most Prominent Personages in History
Description: New York, Selmar Hess Publisher, 1894. Leather. An beautifully illustrated set of these sketches of notable figures. Collated: Complete in 8 Volumes. With 204 photogravure, wood-engraving and typogravure full page plates including a frontispiece to each volume. A set of short biographies of notable figures with illustrations throughout. Includes entries for figures such as Dickens, Socrates, Darwin, Voltaire, Beethoven and many more. Volumes I & II: Soldiers and Sailors Volumes III & IV: Statesmen and Sages Volumes V & Vi: Workmen and Heroes Volumes VII & VIII: Artists and Authors. Edited by Charles Francis Horne, an American author who wrote more than one hundred works particularly of history. In half morocco binding with gilt detailing. Externally, slightly rubbed at extremities and joints. Joints still firm. Hinges slightly strained to volumes II, III, V and VI but still firm. Endpaper loosening to volume II. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright with the occasional spot and handing mark but otherwise clean. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Various. Very Good Indeed .
Keywords: Art Sketches Dickens Darwin Sketches Various
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Title: Great Men and Famous Women: A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of the Lives of More Than 200 of the Most Prominent Personages in History
Description: New York, Selmar Hess Publisher, 1894. Leather. An beautifully illustrated set of these sketches of notable figures. Collated: Complete in 8 Volumes. With 204 photogravure, wood-engraving and typogravure full page plates including a frontispiece to each volume. A set of short biographies of notable figures with illustrations throughout. Includes entries for figures such as Dickens, Socrates, Darwin, Voltaire, Beethoven and many more. Volumes I & II: Soldiers and Sailors Volumes III & IV: Statesmen and Sages Volumes V & Vi: Workmen and Heroes Volumes VII & VIII: Artists and Authors. Edited by Charles Francis Horne, an American author who wrote more than one hundred works particularly of history. In half morocco binding with gilt detailing. Externally, slightly rubbed at extremities and joints. Joints still firm. Hinges slightly strained to volumes II, III, V and VI but still firm. Endpaper loosening to volume II. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright with the occasional spot and handing mark but otherwise clean. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Various. Very Good Indeed .
Keywords: Art Sketches Dickens Darwin Sketches Various
Price: GBP 390.00 = appr. US$ 556.91 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: SET65-B-1
- Book number: SET65-B-1
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