First Edition 1899 25 Volumes 'The Universal Anthology' Editors' Memorial Edition

This is First Edition 1899 Set of 'The Universal Anthology. Editors' Memorial Edition, Copy Number 158 of 1,000 limited copies. A Collection of the Best Literature, Ancient, Mediaeval and Modern, with biographical and explanatory notes by Garnett, Richard, Leon Vallee and Alois Brandl (Ed.)London (New York, Paris, Berlin): The Clarke Company (Merrill & Baker, Emile Terquem, Bibliothek Verlag). The full set of 10" x 7 1/4" books includes 33 volumes (volumes 13-20) are missing in this set). Each of the 25 volumes has green cloth boards, both full color and black and white illustrations covered in parchment, and many uncut pages. Volume 33 has concordances, indexes, and references.

The pages are tight and intact including parchment on the page plates. There is light rubbing to covers, some damp stains, and light page foxing. The 25 volumes are in varying degrees of good to very good condition. The spines are tight (except vol. 33) and there are some small page tears from cutting the pages.

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