Classic Library of Famous Literature: Containing Complete Selections from the World's Best Authors with Prefatory Biographical and Synoptical Notes; Edited and Arranged by Frederick B. De Berard; With a General Introduction by Rossiter Johnson -- vol. 10

New York: The Bodleian Society, 1902. Hardcover. 259 p., frontispiece and 5 leaves of plates; 22 cm. Dark green cloth with paper spine label printed in red and green. Top page edges gilt. Title page in red and black. Plates have tissue guards with red captions. This is no. 408 of a limited edition of 1,000 copies. Running title: Famous Child Stories. Contents: The Water Babies by Charles Kingsley -- La Belle Nivernaise by Alphonse Daudet -- How the Count's Son Died by Sir John Froissart [from Froissart's Chronicles] -- Cosette by Victor Hugo [from Les Miserables] -- A Dog of Flanders by Ouida. The plates include the illustration of Cosette sweeping, which was used in the posters for the musical based on Hugo's novel Les Miserables. In Good Condition: rubbed; front hinge separating; closed 7-cm. tear from lower edge of p. 175; otherwise, clean and solid. Good. Item #008608

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