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Eight volume set of over 680 literary works from over 190 of the world?s best known and influential authors, 2,572pp. The range of topics is as wide as human experience. The information is arranged alphabetically by author. There is also a ToC by title of works in the volume. Each volume is page numbered separately. At the beginning of each author?s section, there is a brief one paragraph biography. The method of presenting the contents of each volume is my own, based on how many encyclopedia sets do so. Volume 1 contains 25 Authors whose last names range from ADD ? BLA, including Aesop through J. M. Barrie. There are 72 titles in ii + 320pp. Volume 2 contains 29 Authors whose last names range from BLA-CRA, including Charlotte Bronte through James Fenimore Cooper. There are 90 titles in ii + 318pp. Volume 3 contains 28 Authors whose last names range from CRA-FIE, including Dante through Euripides. There are 68 titles in ii + 319pp. Volume 4 contains 19 Authors whose last names range from FIT-HAW, including Benjamin Franklin through F. Bret Harte. There are 57 titles in ii + 320pp. Volume 5 contains 20 Authors whose last names range from HAY-KEA, including Patrick Henry through John Keats. There are 85 titles in ii + 320pp. Volume 6 contains 18 Authors whose last names range from KEM-MOO, including Rudyard Kipling through John Milton. There are 100 titles in ii + 320pp. Volume 7 contains 28 Authors whose last names range from MOR-SHA, including Ovid through William Shakespeare. There are 98 titles in ii + 319pp. Volume 8 contains 28 Authors whose last names range from SHE-ZOL, including Socrates through William Wordsworth. There are 110 titles in ii + 320pp. Jeannette Leonard Gilder (pen name Brunswick; 1849?1916) was an American author, journalist, critic, and editor. She served as the regular correspondent and literary critic for Chicago Tribune and was also a correspondent for the Boston Saturday Evening Gazette, Boston Transcript, Philadelphia Record and Press, and various other papers. She was the author of Taken by Siege; Autobiography of a Tomboy; and The Tomboy at Work. Gilder was the editor of Representative Poems of Living Poets (with her brother, Joseph Benson Gilder); Essays from the Critic (with Helen Gray Cone); Pen Portraits of Literary Women; and The Heart of Youth, an anthology; as well as the owner and editor of The Reader: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine Hardcovers have red cloth boards with gold lettering on spine, but no DJs. Interior is tight and clean. Prior owner?s name in each volume, adds no value. Volume 8 from different prior owner than 1st 7 volumes. Memorable quotes copied into end papers. Some underlining and notes in text. News clippings laid in. Books have been carefully handled with square corners. ? Size: 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall, 2,572pp. ? Condition: Good Plus 8 volume Hardcover Set w/o DJs ? Always privately owned. Copyright 1910. No edition or printing info. Printed in U.S.A. No ISBN, LCCN or MSR. Due to oversize and Weight, additional charge for expidited or out of USA shipping may be required. Seller Inventory # 007977
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Title: Master Pieces of the World's Best Literature...
Publisher: Classic Publishing Co., New York, NY U.S.A.
Publication Date: 1910
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good+
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Signed: Prior Owner Name No Value
