{"product_id":"c1920-antique-library-29-books-literature-poetry-classics-leather-gilt-bindings","title":"c1920 Antique Library 29 Books Literature Poetry Classics Leather Gilt Bindings","description":"\u003cstrong\u003e\n \u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003e\n  c1920 Antique Library 29 Books Literature Poetry Classics Leather Gilt Bindings\n \u003c\/font\u003e\n\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n \u003cfont face=\"Arial\"\u003e\n  \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18.6667px;\"\u003e\n   \u003cb\u003e\n    \u003cbr\u003e\n   \u003c\/b\u003e\n  \u003c\/span\u003e\n \u003c\/font\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n \u003cfont face=\"Arial\"\u003e\n  \u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\n   \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18.6667px;\"\u003e\n    A Broad Collection\/Library of Antique Books. Includes The Following 29 Volumes:\n   \u003c\/span\u003e\n   \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003c\/div\u003e\n  \u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\n   \u003col\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003e\n     \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18.6667px;\"\u003e\n      Sheridan's Dramatic Works — Richard Brinsley Sheridan\n     \u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003e\n     \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18.6667px;\"\u003e\n      A Typing Anthology of Verse\n     \u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003e\n     \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18.6667px;\"\u003e\n      Familiar Studies of Men and Books — Robert Louis Stevenson\n     \u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003e\n     \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18.6667px;\"\u003e\n      The Decameron — Giovanni Boccaccio\n     \u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003e\n     \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18.6667px;\"\u003e\n      Life of General Booth\n     \u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003e\n     \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18.6667px;\"\u003e\n      Selected Poems — Rupert Brooke\n     \u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003e\n     \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18.6667px;\"\u003e\n      The Golden Legend — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow\n     \u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003e\n     \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18.6667px;\"\u003e\n      Table Talk — William Hazlitt\n     \u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003e\n     \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18.6667px;\"\u003e\n      Selections from Robert Burns\n     \u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003e\n     \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18.6667px;\"\u003e\n      Poems — Ella Wheeler Wilcox\n     \u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003e\n     \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18.6667px;\"\u003e\n      Sketches and Essays — William Hazlitt\n     \u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003e\n     \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18.6667px;\"\u003e\n      Hard Cash — Charles Reade\n     \u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003e\n     \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18.6667px;\"\u003e\n      The Man in the Iron Mask — Alexandre Dumas\n     \u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003e\n     \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18.6667px;\"\u003e\n      Mrs Halliburton's Troubles — Mrs Henry Wood\n     \u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003e\n     \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18.6667px;\"\u003e\n      Lectures on the English Comic Writers — William Hazlitt\n     \u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003e\n     \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18.6667px;\"\u003e\n      The Hero and Hero-Worship — Thomas Carlyle\n     \u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003e\n     \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18.6667px;\"\u003e\n      The Apocrypha — Revised Version\n     \u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003e\n     \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18.6667px;\"\u003e\n      Plays — Leo Tolstoy\n     \u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003e\n     \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18.6667px;\"\u003e\n      The Blue Bird — Maurice Maeterlinck\n     \u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003e\n     \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18.6667px;\"\u003e\n      Selections from Wordsworth — William Wordsworth\n     \u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003e\n     \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18.6667px;\"\u003e\n      Youth \u0026amp; Gaspar Ruiz — Joseph Conrad\n     \u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003e\n     \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18.6667px;\"\u003e\n      Sister Beatrice and Ardiane \u0026amp; Barbe Bleue — Maurice Maeterlinck\n     \u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003e\n     \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18.6667px;\"\u003e\n      Cole's Pocket Dictionary\n     \u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003e\n     \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18.6667px;\"\u003e\n      The Merry Wives of Windsor — William Shakespeare\n     \u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003e\n     \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18.6667px;\"\u003e\n      Enoch Arden — Alfred, Lord Tennyson\n     \u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003e\n     \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18.6667px;\"\u003e\n      Goethe's Hermann and Dorothea — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe\n     \u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003e\n     \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18.6667px;\"\u003e\n      The Golden Legend — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow\n     \u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003e\n     \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18.6667px;\"\u003e\n      Soldier Songs - Edited by J.E. Carpenter\n     \u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003e\n     \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18.6667px;\"\u003e\n      Longfellows Poetical Works\n     \u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003c\/li\u003e\n   \u003c\/ol\u003e\n   \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18.6667px;\"\u003e\n    Various Publishers Mainly: London c1920\n   \u003c\/span\u003e\n   \u003cbr\u003e\n   \u003cdiv\u003e\n    \u003cbr\u003e\n   \u003c\/div\u003e\n   \u003cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003e\n    \"\n   \u003c\/span\u003e\n   \u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003e\n    Offered here is a wonderfully atmospheric instant antique library comprising 29 individual books, housed together in the vintage carry\/storage case shown and weighing approximately 5.4 kilograms in total. Predominantly dating from the late Victorian, Edwardian and early twentieth-century period, the collection presents beautifully as a group, with an exceptional array of gilt-decorated leather, faux-leather and cloth spines in rich reds, greens, blues and browns. Arranged upon a shelf, the books have precisely the warm, traditional appearance associated with an old private library or study, while remaining a genuine and highly varied collection of readable literature rather than a modern decorative set.\n   \u003c\/font\u003e\n   \u003cdiv\u003e\n    \u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003e\n     \u003cbr\u003e\n    \u003c\/font\u003e\n   \u003c\/div\u003e\n   \u003cdiv\u003e\n    \u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003e\n     The collection ranges broadly across English and European literature, poetry, drama, essays, biography, religion and reference, with works by many of the great names of the literary canon. Visible titles include Sheridan's Dramatic Works; A Typing Anthology of Verse; Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson; The Decameron by Boccaccio; Life of General Booth; Selected Poems by Rupert Brooke; Poems of Ella Wheeler Wilcox; Sketches and Essays by William Hazlitt; Hard Cash by Charles Reade; The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas; Mrs Halliburton's Troubles by Mrs Henry Wood; Plays by Tolstoy; The Apocrypha; Selections from Wordsworth; Conrad's Youth \u0026amp; Gaspar Ruiz; Sister Beatrice and Ardiane \u0026amp; Barbe Bleue by Maurice Maeterlinck; The Merry Wives of Windsor by Shakespeare; Enoch Arden by Tennyson; The Golden Legend by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; and Cole's Pocket Dictionary, together with further volumes displayed in the photographs. The Maeterlinck volume is representative of an established early-20th-century series of pocket editions, while the illustrated Collins Merry Wives of Windsor belongs to its attractive Stage Shakespeare series.\n    \u003c\/font\u003e\n   \u003c\/div\u003e\n   \u003cdiv\u003e\n    \u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003e\n     \u003cbr\u003e\n    \u003c\/font\u003e\n   \u003c\/div\u003e\n   \u003cdiv\u003e\n    \u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003e\n     Particularly appealing are the numerous decorative gilt bindings and pocket-format editions scattered throughout the collection. Among the books examined is Stevenson's Familiar Studies of Men and Books, identified on its title page as the Fine-Paper Edition, Chatto \u0026amp; Windus, London, 1901; the Longfellow Golden Legend retains its attractive colour frontispiece; the Ella Wheeler Wilcox volume contains nearly 100 selected poems and a portrait frontispiece; while The Merry Wives of Windsor contains its illustrated frontispiece and was issued with eight pages of illustrations. The Maeterlinck Sister Beatrice and Ardiane \u0026amp; Barbe Bleue is another particularly attractive little gilt volume, a work documented in George Allen editions from the opening decades of the twentieth century.\n    \u003c\/font\u003e\n   \u003c\/div\u003e\n   \u003cdiv\u003e\n    \u003cbr\u003e\n   \u003c\/div\u003e\n   \u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003e\n    A terrific opportunity to acquire an entire 29-volume antique and vintage library in a single purchase, complete with the old carry case in which the books are displayed. The collection would be equally suited to the reader or collector seeking an inexpensive cross-section of classic literature, or as a ready-made library for a traditional study, office, bookcase, period home, library display or interior setting. Most importantly, these are not uniform modern reproduction \"decorator books\": they are genuine old books, individually published and naturally aged over many decades, giving the collection tremendous character when displayed together. All 29 books and the carry case shown are included in the sale.\n   \u003c\/font\u003e\n   \u003cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003e\n    \"\n   \u003c\/span\u003e\n  \u003c\/div\u003e\n  \u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\n   \u003cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003e\n    \u003cbr\u003e\n   \u003c\/span\u003e\n  \u003c\/div\u003e\n  \u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\n   \u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003e\n    \u003cstrong\u003e\n     Condition:\n    \u003c\/strong\u003e\n    Good overall antique\/vintage condition, with condition naturally varying considerably between individual volumes. Expect general age-related wear including rubbing, fading, marks, foxing, toning, bumped and worn corners, edge wear and varying degrees of wear to bindings. Several volumes exhibit heavier wear, including losses or deterioration to spine coverings, worn joints and\/or binding weakness, as clearly visible in the photographs. Other volumes remain particularly attractive with strong gilt decoration and well-preserved bindings. Books have not been individually collated and are offered together as a single 29-volume collection exactly as photographed. Vintage carry case has general surface, edge and storage wear consistent with age and use. Total combined weight approximately 5.4kg.\n   \u003c\/font\u003e\n  \u003c\/div\u003e\n  \u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\n   \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003c\/div\u003e\n \u003c\/font\u003e\n \u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\n  \u003cdiv style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;\"\u003e\n   \u003cfont rwr=\"1\" style=\"\"\u003e\n    \u003cdiv style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;\"\u003e\n     \u003cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003e\n      Carry Box Measures 39.5cm x 24cm For Book Size \u0026amp; Scale Reference.\n     \u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003c\/div\u003e\n   \u003c\/font\u003e\n  \u003c\/div\u003e\n \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n","brand":"Antique Books Australia","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49308645589131,"sku":null,"price":188.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0607\/0770\/0875\/files\/0a43a77d-116a-493c-af5d-bdb76a7d8e39.jpg?v=1788511034","url":"https:\/\/antiquebooksaustralia.com.au\/products\/c1920-antique-library-29-books-literature-poetry-classics-leather-gilt-bindings","provider":"Antique Books Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}