[Rarebooks] F.S. Literature The World's Greatest Classics 22 Vol.

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Edited by Timothy Dwight, Richard Henry Stoddard, Arthur Richmond Marsh,
Paul Van Dyke, Albert Ellery Bergh.1) History of Europe During the Middle
Ages; Henry Hallam; (1898), Volumes 1 & 2;
2) Hebrew Literature: Comprising of Talmudic Treatises, Hebrew Melodies and
The Kabbalah Unveiled (1901); Introduction by Epiphanius Wilson, a
magnificent illuminated frontispiece, "Battle Between the Idumeans and
Jews";  3) History of Florence, from the Earliest Times to the Death of
Lorenzo the Magnificent (1901) by Nicco Machiavelli; 4) The History of
Philosophy (1901), by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel; Preface by Charles
Hegel, translation by J. Sibree;  5)  A Short History of the English People,
by John Richard Green (volumes I & II), Frontispiece of Green & beautiful
Illuminated frontispiece, Delilah's Treachery To Samson (from the Clermont
Tomerre Bible Hystorians, written about 1370). Volume I begins with The
English Kingdoms, 607-1013 (Britain and the English); Volume II begins with
the Reformation, The Protestants, 1540-1553; 6) Green's History of the
English People, Civilization in Europe; frontispiece photo of Queen
Victoria; begins with Modern England, William Pitt, 1742-1762, (volume III);
7) Principals of Political Economy, with some of their applications to
Social Philosophy, by John Stuart Mill, (volume II); begins with "Summary of
the Theory of Value," introduction and frontispiece of  Arthur T. Hadley,
(President of Yale until 1899); 8) Moorish Literature, comprising Romantic
Ballads, Tales of the Berbers, Stories of the Kabylie, Folk-Lore and
National Traditions; translated into English for the First time. Special
introduction by Epiphanius Wilson (1901); frontispiece "A Harem in Granada"
(photograph from the original painting by Edouard Ruchter, Paris Salon 1883;
9) Essays of British Essayists, including biographical and critical
sketches; special introduction by Chauncey C. Starkweather, (volume II,
1900); frontispiece Charles Lamb. Works by: Dickens; Lamb; Walter Savage
Landor; William Hazlitt; Leigh Hunt; Thomas De Quincey; Shelley; Carlyle;
Macaulay; Douglas Jerrold; Thackeray; Arthur Helps; Froude; Ruskin;
Kingsley; Herbert Spencer; Matthew Arnold; Edward Augustus Freeman; Thomas
Henry Huxley; Sir John Lubbock; 10) Critique of Pure Reason, by Immanuel
Kant; frontispiece of Kant; introduction by translator J.M.D. Meiklejohn.
Beautiful illustration of "Early Venetian Printing"; 11) Advancement of
Learning and Novum Organum, (1899), by Francis Bacon (Lord Verulam), with a
special introduction by James Edward Creighton; frontispiece, photogravure
of Francis Bacon;  12) The Divine Comedy, by Dante Alighieri; translated by
Henry Francis Cary, frontispiece, photogravure of Dante, from the original
painting by Giotto di Bordone; 13) The Nibelungenlied, translated by William
Nanson Lettsom (1901); frontispiece, Wotan's Farewell to Brunhild,
photogravure of original painting by Kourad Diehitz. An epic German Gothic
Poem. Originally written in Middle High German, sometime around 1200 A.D.
14) Orations of British Orators; including Biographical and Critical
Sketches; intro. By Julian Hawthorne. Volume I (only): Hugh Latimer, Thomas
Cranmer, John Knox, Richard Hooker, John Donne, The Earl of Strafford, Sir
John Eliot, Robert Leighton, Lord Chesterfield, Sir Robert Walpole, Henry
Grattan, John Wesley, and many others; Chronicles of England, France, Spain
and adjoining countries; from the latter part of the Reign of Edward II to
the Coronation of Henry IV; (1901) by Sir John Froissart, translated from
the French by Thomas Jones, (volume I, only), Frontispiece, Sir John
Froissart, photogravure from a rare print; 15) The Spirit of Laws, by Baron
De Montesquieu (Charles De Secondat) (1689-1755) Montesquieu was an
important French thinker during the first have of the eighteenth century;
including D'Alembert's Analysis of the Work, translated from the French by
Thomas Nugent; Frontispiece, Part of a Column of Gutenberg's Bible, (1899),
volumes I and II; 16) Oriental Literature, the Literature of Persia (volume
II); introduction by Richard J.H. Gottheil, Ph.D., Prof. of Rabbinical
Literature and the Semitic languages at Columbia Univ.; Contents: The
Gulistan: customs of Kings; Morals of Dervishes; Preciousness of
Contentment; Benefit of Being Silent; Love and Youth; Imbecility and Old
Age; Impressions of Education; Duties of Society; Frontispiece, Good Advice,
photogravure from a painting by L. Knaus (an aged Persian, instructing his
son in the wisdom of the Persian Sages. (1900); 17) Oriental Literature, The
Literature of China, with critical and biographical sketches by Epiphanius,
Wilson; Frontispiece, Confucius, photogravure from an old Chinese print,
(1899), Volume IV. Contents: The Analects of Confucius; The Sayings of
Mencius; The Shi-King; The Travels of Fa-Hein; The Sorrows of Han.
Pronunciation of proper names; 18) Jerusalem Delivered (about the First
Crusade), by Torquato Tasso (1544-1595), translated by, Edward Fairfax
(1901); Frontispiece of Tasso, photogravure from an original painting by
Wilhelm Von Kaulbach; 19) The Republic of Plato, An Ideal Commonwealth,
Plato, translated by Benjamin Jowett; (1901), Frontispiece, A Reading from
Homer, photogravure from the original painting by Laurence Alma-Tadema; 20)
Drama, by Greek, Spanish, French, German and English Dramatists, with a
special Introduction by Albert Ellery Bergh (volume II only) (1900): Faust;
The Rivals; Mary Stuart; A Doll's House; Les Pattes De Mouche; Frontispiece,
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, photogravure from an oil painting by J.K.
Stieler. With many photogravures, etchings, colored plates and full page
portraits of great authors. Cloth bindings, blue, brown, orange, red,
pastedown title panel to spine. Deckled edges, many pages unopened. Bindings
all solid, pages clean, no foxing or writing. Mild rubbing, few spots, soil
to boards. "The Revised Edition" 1899 to 1901. TEG. Each volume
approximately 400 pp, sm 4to--Digitals available. $155.00
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