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International Library of Famous Literature (complete in 20 vols) in INVERMAY, Tasmania for sale

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This set was one of the most ambitious and audacious publishing feats of its day: a four-person editorial panel was assembled representing Britain, France, Germany and the United States, and a further 16 specialists were invited, with all 20 contributing introductory essays, one to each of the 20 volumes, each covering a different genre or national literature.
A 1900 publication year.
Together, the volumes have 10,346 pp of text and index + 480 inserted plates, including 20 tissue-guarded frontispieces. All books in good condition other than the last volume as shown in image.
Complete sets of this work are seldom offered. This set is complete and in better than good condition overall.
The binding was the most popular of the period: maroon gilded calf with matching cloth-boards, matching marbled endpapers and top edge gilt.
Nineteenth-century writing - poetry and prose - is especially well represented, particularly the leading British and American authors. Among the almost one thousand extracts selected, non-English literature is by no means neglected, with Greek, Latin, Persian, Arabic and modern languages translated into English. Each volume contains a wide selection of styles and languages, rather than German, French, Russian, Spanish or Italian literature, for example, being concentrated in particular volumes.
The special contributors were eminent writers of the day and include Dean Farrar, Edmund Gosse, Bret Harte, Henry James, Andrew Lang, Maurice Maeterlinck and Emile Zola.