Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

E-307: Little, Brown & Company. Very Good. 1930. Tenth Edition. Hardcover. Leather. 8vo. Published by Little, Brown and Co. , Boston, MA 1930. 1454 pages. 10th Edition.  Bound in full brown leather with gilt rule and designs present to the boards and stamped gilt titles and raised bands present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. John Bartlett's timeless collection of quotations from many of the finest luminaries of English prose and poetry are presented here. The book begins with a presentation of the King James Bible, beginning with the Old Testament. Many of the most inspiring and memorable verses from across the Biblical canon are present. This is followed by the New Testament, with a number of the most evocative and spiritually rich gospel quotations listed. After the Bible comes Shakespeare's plays - listing each play in turn, Bartlett presents the finest lines from each. The great wisdom and expression for which William Shakespeare is renowned finds ample demonstration, with tragedies such as Macbeth and comedies such as Twelfth Night among the plays Bartlett draws upon. John Bartlett (June 14, 1820 – December 3, 1905) was an American writer and publisher whose best known work, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, has been continually revised and reissued for a century after his death. EB; 9.29 X 6.14 X 2.13 inches; 1454 pages .