Lot Details
Lot 1248
A COLLECTION OF CLASSICS BY VARIOUS STANDARD AUTHORS, UNIFORMLY BOUND Goethe, Faust, Homer, Dante.
. Goethe. (Taylor, Bayard-trans.) Faust. WITH Homer (Bryant, William Cullen-trans.) Odyssey and Iliad WITH Dante (Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth-trans.) The Divine Comedy WITH Virgil (Cranch, Christopher Pearse-trans.) Aeneid. Boston & New York, Houghton Mifflin & Co., 1905-1906. Each one of 650 sets, except for the Iliad and Odyssey, which are limited to 600. 20 volumes in total, bound uniformly in three-quarters green morocco, spines gilt, marbled sides. 10 3/4 inches (27 cm). Frontispieces in colored and uncolored states, illustrations throughout on Japan paper, all protected by printed tissue guards. Some light wear, spines faded to a uniform rich brown, still a very attractive set.
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