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1850 1ed FAMOUS Literature Shakespeare Bacon Swift

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1850 1ed FAMOUS Literature Shakespeare Bacon Swift Ben Franklin Dickens 4v

In the mid-19th-century, iconic English editor Charles Knight published a periodical entitled ‘Half-Hours with the Best Authors’. This work was designed to provide half hour reading material to English audiences of some of the most admired and recognizable pieces of literature. Notable authors included in this set include Jonathan Swift, Francis Bacon, Edmund Spenser, Joseph Addison, Goethe, Benjamin Franklin, Plutarch, Charles Dickens, and William Shakespeare.

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KNIGHT, Charles [edit.]

Half-Hours with The Best Authors selected and arranged with short biographical and critical notices

London: Charles Knight, [1850].

Details:

Collation: Complete with all pages; 4 volumes

Vol. I – iv, 585, [1]

Vol. II – iv, 532, 2

Vol. III – iv, 554, [2]

Vol. IV – v, [1], 590

Provenance: Bookplate – John Robert Wright, Inner Temple

Language: English

Binding: Leather; tight & secure

Visible repair to hinges

Size: ~7.25in X 5.25in (18cm x 13cm)

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