Character Sketches Of Romance, Fiction And The Drama (Volume IV); a revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by LL.D. Rev. E. Cobham Brewer and Marion Harland - 1902

New York, NY: Selmar Hess, 1892. 1st Ed. Hardbound. 4to. 6 Pgs.. Poor in DJ/Good. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Volume I by Rev E Cobham Brewer LLD. Published by Selmar Hess, New York, NY, 1892. 1st Edition. Hardbound. Plastic DJ. Size 4to (up to 12'' tall). Condition: Poor in DJ. 408 Pgs. Leather covering spine cracked, most of it gone, book held together with plastic dust jacket. Tissue page ofver frontispiece has many holes, stain on frontispiece, water mark on top of content last 50 or so pages, overall content not affected. Balance of content in good condition with some age spotting. A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook. Edited by Marion Harland. Description text copyright 2007 BooksForComfort. Item ID 14774.

New York: Selmar Hess: 1892-1896., 1892-1896.. Very good. - Quarto, 11-1/2 inches high by 9 inches wide. Four hardcover volumes, bound in pictorial olive green cloth with gilt decorations and an art nouveau illustration stamped on the front covers, with moire pastedowns and endpapers. Titled in gilt on the spines. All edges are gilt. The corners and head & tail of the spines are lightly bumped and the bottom edges of the covers are slightly rubbed. Volume 1 (1892): viii & 408 pages. Volume 2 (1896): vi & 408 pages. Volume 3: (1896): vi & 408 pages. Volume 4 (1892): vi & 384 pages. Each volume is illustrated with a color frontispiece and 84 plates with printed tissue guards, a total of 340 plates in all including works by Gustave Dore, Sir Edwin Landseer, Holman Hunt, Sir Frederick Leighton, E.A. Abbey, and G. Moreau. The front hinge of the second volume is cracked opposite the front blank leaf. An attractive set.
Volume 4 contains an "English and American bibliography" pages 285-336, and "Authors and… Read More

NY: Selmar Hess, 1892. G/. 1st edition, 1st printing. This is a 4 volume set. Thick folio's bound in full leather, spines gilt titled, all edges gilt. Illustrated with photogravures, etchings, wood engravings and typogravures, tissue guarded. Each volume has a lovely color frontispiece. Complete four volume set. All four books have pieces missing from spine and owner inscription on 2nd free page. Volume 1 has front board and end pages detached. Volume 2 has dampstain on fore edges of first nine pages. No dust jackets, as issued.