FREE: 1889~ANTIQUE BOOK~MASTER THOUGHTS IN POEM PROSE & PENCIL~POETRY~NICE CONDITION~EMERSON~+OTHERS~ILLUS

The listing, 1889~ANTIQUE BOOK~MASTER THOUGHTS IN POEM PROSE & PENCIL~POETRY~NICE CONDITION~EMERSON~+OTHERS~ILLUS has ended.

This antique book is in very nice overall condition for its' age!

"MASTER THOUGHTS OF MASTER MINDS in Poem, Prose and Pencil ~

With a few pearls entwined from authors of less renown, to which is added an appendix of biographical and critical notes"

Compiled by W. Harrison Starkey

1889 ~ Elliott & Beezley

Hardcover. 318 pages.

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The Preface states: "The aim and scope of this work is to introduce all lovers of literature into that charmed circle of great authors, and ask them to sit down with Homer, and Milton, and Pope, and Addison, and Lamb, and drink at the overflowing fountain of genius; to become guests at the table around which sit Shakespeare, and Dante, and Johnson, and Goethe, and Cervantes and partake of a feast far richer than any every spread by the dainty Lucullus; to wander by the babbling brooks and amid the fragrant flowers of those great gardeners of men, and to pluck therefrom the sweet and rare exotics that have exhilarated and intoxicated the human race for many ages and will continue so to do for many more to come...."

Just some of the great included are: Shakespeare, Blair, Stern, Longfellow, Moultrie, Byron, Keats, Spenser, Heath, Lamb, Ruskin, Bancroft, Thackeray, Crabbe, Young, Browning, Irving, Wolfe, ETC....ETC...!

Excellent condition for its age. Pages and binding are tight. No writing on the pages. No musty odors. No missing pages. Covers are tight. Binding is tight. Pages are tight. There is an inscription on the inside front cover dated 1908. There is also a stamp on the inside cover from a nursing home facility.

Edges are gold.

INCLUDES SOME ILLUSTRATIONS THROUGHOUT.

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