A Library Of Choice Prose Hardcover 12 volume set by Various - 1910

Rare item - A Library Of Choice Prose - Full Boxed set of 12 works, in very good condition an excellent gift for the connoisseur collector. UK owner. Presented in a top opening fold down front, revealing the set with gilded page edges. Green canvas finished box. Books are pocket sized - 5 7/8" x 3 5/8" Green Canvas finished boards, gilt titles and edge detail. Cloudy image detail to spines and edges of the pictures is just the original rice paper cover, I have owned this set for over 30 years, it has been kept out of the sunlight and is in very good condition.
A collection of prose works from some of the most widely read and influential authors in history. Containing: The Imitation of Christ by Thomas a Kempis. With an introduction by the Very Rev. H. C. Beeching Utopia by Thomas More. Translated by Ralph Robinson, with an introduction by H. G. Wells Imaginary Conversations by Walter Savage Landor. Selected with an introduction by Sir J. P. Mahaffy Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb. Introduction by Augustine Birrell. Essays by Montaigne. Translated by John Florio. Introduction by Charles Whibley. Johnson's Table Talk: A Selection of His Main Topics and Opinions Taken From Boswell's Life by James Boswell. Arranged by W. A. Lewis Bettany Essays by William Hazlitt. Introduction by Charles Whibley The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table by Holmes. Introduction by Gilbert K. Chesterton Walden, Or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau. Introduction by Richard Whiteing. Illustrated with decorative endpapers and frontispieces to each volume.