James Boswell; Michael Lord of Montaigne [Trans. by John Florio]; William Caxton; Daniel Defoe; Gilbert White; Thucydides [trans. by Richard Crawley]; Saint Francis of Assisi [trans. by T.W. Arnold]; Thomas Dekker; Walter Savage Landor - The Temple Classics, Published by Dent and Co.

London, J.M Dent and Sons , 1897-1939. Cloth. A grand collection of The Temple Classics, thirty-three books of twelve selected works that are praised for their significance and longevity. A grand collection of The Temple Classics, an array of popular classical literature selected for their significance and longevity. All published by J.M Dent and Sons between 1897-1939. Edited by Israel Gollancz, a professor of English Language and Literature at King's College London. Scarce as such a large set.In the publisher's original blue cloth, with a charming frontispiece at the beginning of every volume. Collated complete.The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell. Volumes 1-6. Published in 1897.The Essayes of Michael Lord of Montaigne, translated by John Florio. Volumes 1-6. Published in 1897.The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson. Published in 1898. Contains a folding map as the frontispiece. The Golden Legend or Live of the Saints as Englished by William Caxton. Volumes 1-7. Published in 1900.The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living by Jeremy Taylor. Volume 2 published in 1900. A complete edition published in 1901. Includes advertisements from Dent and Sons to end papers.A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe. Published in 1900.The Natural History of Selborne by Gilbert White. Published in 1901.Thucydides' Peloponnesian War, translated by Richard Crawley: Volume 2. Published in 1903.The Hellenics and Gebir of Walter Savage Landor. Published in 1908.The Little Flowers of Saint Francis of Assisi, newly translated out of the Italian by T.W. Arnold. Published in 1926.The Gul's Hornbook, and The Belman of London in Two Parts by Thomas Dekker. Published in 1928.Another The Golden Legend or Live of the Saints as Englished by William Caxton. Volumes 1-3 and 5-7. Volumes 5 is a 1900 original, while volumes 1-3 and 6 are 1930's reprints. In the publisher's original blue cloth. Externally, very smart with the odd mark to boards. Small signs of shelf wear to head and tail of spines. Slight bruising to board extremities of Selborne, Montaigne volumes 6 and 4, and Life of Johnson volume 2. Offsetting to end papers, and the occasional spot. Browning to original advertisements in both Taylors. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good . Ill.: Various. Very Good .

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