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New York: Selmar Hess, 1894. AW-1. Volume IV. Hardcover. Board covers dust soiled. Front board cover almost detached at joints. 2" crack at right hinge. Spine ends, corners, and edges of boards worn. Text is clean, unmarked. A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in history.. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Selmar Hess, NY, 1894. Edition Unstated. Hardcover. Good+/no dust Jacket. Some cover wear. ; Full leather. 18 photogravures and 31 wood engravings/typogravures. ; Vol. 4; Photo-gravure; Folio 13" - 23" tall. KATOP Quantity Available: 1. Category: Art & Design; Books on Books. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3651. .

NEW YORK: SELMAR HESS, 1894 TERRIFIC BOOK WITH WONDERFUL ARTWORK. VOLUME EIGHT OF A NICE SET OF EIGHT WITH ARTWORK AND DETAILED HISTORY. GOLD PRINT AND DESIGN FRONT AND SPINE. INSIDE IS CLEAN AND TIGHT. GOLD TRIM ON PAGES. BEAUTIFUL ARTWORK, PHOTOGRAVURES, WOOD-GRAVINGS AND TYPOGRAVURES. TISSUE PAPER, THICK PAGES, QUALITY BOOK. Charles Francis Horne (born January 12, 1870 in Jersey City, New Jersey - died September 13, 1942 in Annapolis, Maryland) was an American author of books. He wrote or edited more than one hundred books, mostly multi-volume history works. He was a Professor of English at City College of New York. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.

Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items.

New York: Selmar Hess. VOLUME VIII of 8 Volumes: ARTISTS AND AUTHORS: MICHAEL ANGELO; BEETHOVEN; SARAH BERNHARDT; ROSA BONHEUR; EDWIN BOOTH; CHARLOTTE CUSHMAN; LEONARDO DA VINCI; GUSTAVE DORE; ALBERT DURER; EDWIN FORREST; DAVID GARRICK; GEROME; HANDEL; HAYDN; WILLIAM HOGARTH; JOSEPH JERRERSON; FRANZ LISZT; MEISSONIER; MENDELSSOHN; JEAN FRANCOIS MILLET; MOZART; PAGANINI; ADELINA PATTI; PHIDIAS; RACHEL; RAPHAEL; REMBRANDT; SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS; DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI; REUBENS; THORWALDSEN; TITIAN; GIUSEPPE VERDI; RICHARD WAGNER; BENJAMIN WEST. The biographies of 36 prominent personages in history. CLEAN Brown leather, finely pebbled boards w/darker brown, leather quater binding & at corner tips, gilt engraved lettering & thistle design to cover & banded spinestrip, with mild show of rubbing & shelf wear chiefly at edges & along right of spinestrip & corner tips. Red closed edging, matched marbled endpapers on coated stock. interiors near fine. NO names, markings, soil, smudge,… Read More

New York: Selmar Hess. VOLUME VII of 8 Volumes: ARTISTS AND AUTHORS: ROBERT BROWNING; WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT; JOHN BUNYAN; ROBERT BURNS; THOMAS CARYLE; CERVANTES; THOMAS CHATTERTON; GEOFFREY CHAUCER; JAMES FENIMORE COOPER; DANTE; DANIEL DE FOE; CHARLES DICKENS; RALPH WALDO EMERSON; GOETHE; OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES; HOMER; HORACE; VICTOR HUGO; WASHINGTON IRVING; SAMUEL JOHNSON; HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW; JOHN MILTON; MOLIERE; PETRARCH; PLATO; ALEXANDER POPE; SCHILLER; SIR WALTER SCOTT; WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE; DEAN SWIFT; TORQUATO TASSO; ALFRED TENNYSON; VIRGIL; VOLTAIRE; WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. The biographies of 38 prominent personages in history. CLEAN Brown leather, finely pebbled boards w/darker brown, leather quater binding & at corner tips, gilt engraved lettering & thistle design to cover & banded spinestrip, with mild show of rubbing & shelf wear chiefly at edges & along right of spinestrip & corner tips. Red closed edging, matched marbled endpapers on coated stock. interiors near… Read More

Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

Selmar Hess, New York: (1894)., 1894 Issued (by subscription) in sixty-eight (68) original parts. Large 4to. 240 x 310 mm. Paper wraps, somewhat worn with soiling and loss to a few parts. Each part contains 3 full-page engravings (one which is photogravure by Messrs. Goupil & Co. of Paris or other eminent makers) plus 24 pages of biography, illustrated with monochrome sketches. The contributors were also famous persons, and include: Theodore Roosevelt; H. Rider Haggard; Henry George; Margaret Sangster; Harriet Prescott Spofford; Albion Tourgee; Ella Wheeler Wilcox; Edward Everett Hale; Hans Christian Andersen; Thomas Carlyle; Will Carleton; Edward Everett Hale; William Lloyd Garrison; and many others. Books in parts are works which were published piecemeal (mainly in the 19th century) over a period of months or years. Each unit usually having a separate magazine-like cover. This method of publishing benefited the publisher as it was thought that the price of a weekly or monthly part at one… Read More