LIBRARY OF THE WORLD'S BEST LITERATURE, ANCIENT AND MODERN!
Complete in 30 massive volumes.
Printed in 1896. 

FIRST EDITION.


Printed in 1896.
This set is well over 120 years old.

Edited by Charles Warner.

Charles Dudley Warner (September 12, 1829 – October 20, 1900) was an American essayist, novelist, and friend of Mark Twain, with whom he co-authored the novel: The Gilded Age, A Tale of Today.

This is a FIRST EDITION of his Library of The World's Best Literature.

Charles Dudley Warner's Notable works:The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today, Library of the World's Best Literature.



Complete in THIRTY VOLUMES, as stated on the title page.

The leather is still supple, and the hinges are all strongly attached.


This is a MASSIVE and INCREDIBLY HEAVY collection.
These are large books.
Measuring 10 inches tall.
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This set will require multiple shipping boxes, and will take me 3-4 hours to protect for shipping, so please only purchase this set if you want it.

 LIBRARY OF THE WORLD'S BEST LITERATURE. ANCIENT AND MODERN. 
 Illustrated with portraits of authors. 
 Bound in thick moroccan leather. 
 The original binding. 
 Ornate gilded spine. 
 Top edge gilded. 
 Floral design end-papers, laced with gilding. 
 These are large heavy books at 10'' tall. 
 Complete in 30 volumes, as stated on the title page. 
 R.S. Peale and J. A. Hill, New York. 
 Printed in 1896. 
 FIRST EDITION.

This set has been in storage for 15 years and may exhibit more wear than shown in the pictures, and the condition still needs to be verified. There is generalized wear and wear to the bindings, some of which is visible in the pictures. Hinges fully attached and sound. Some general rubbing and abrasions, some spines lighter, as shown. Exceptionally well preserved interior. Clean, bright, crisp pages. Likely free of foxing. No writing or signs of previous ownership. Very tight and well preserved, despite the sheer size and weight. A massive and imposing collection. A library in its own right.

Associate editors; Mabie, Hamilton Wright; Runkle, Lucia Gilbert; and Warner, George H. Each volume includes a frontis protected by tissue. 
 Vol.1-27 Contains Ancient and Modern Literature. 
 Vol. 28 Contains on Hymns and Lyrics. 
 Vol. 29 contains a Biographical Dictionary. 
 Vol. 30 contains a synopsis of books and an index. 
A spectacular collection of literature. 
 The perfect addition to any collection. 
 A small sample of author's included John Adams, Aesop, Francis Bacon, Honore de Balzac, James Barrie, Lord Byron, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Mark Twain, Alexander Dumas, Rudyard Kipling, Benjamin Franklin, Victor Hugo, John Locke, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Sir Isaac Newton, Thomas Paine, Plato, Percy Shelley, Socrates, Jonathan Swift, William Makepeace Thackeray, Henry David Thoreau, Lyof Tolstoy, Voltaire, William Wordsworth, Adam Smith, Bronte, Hippocrates, Poe, Virgil, Plato, Homer... and thousands more of history's greatest writers both ancient and modern. 

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Charles Dudley Warner

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Charles Dudley Warner
Warner in 1897
Warner in 1897
BornSeptember 12, 1829
Plainfield, Massachusetts, U.S.
DiedOctober 20, 1900 (aged 71)
Hartford, Connecticut, U.S.
OccupationWriter, editor
NationalityAmerican
Notable worksThe Gilded Age: A Tale of Today, Library of the World's Best Literature.
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Charles Dudley Warner (September 12, 1829 – October 20, 1900) was an American essayist, novelist, and friend of Mark Twain, with whom he co-authored the novel The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today.

Warner was born of Puritan descent in Plainfield, Massachusetts. From the ages of six to fourteen he lived in Charlemont, Massachusetts, the place and time revisited in his book Being a Boy (1877). He then moved to Cazenovia, New York, and in 1851 graduated from Hamilton College in Clinton, New York. [1]

He worked with a surveying party in Missouri and then studied law at the University of Pennsylvania. He moved to Chicago, where he practiced law from 1856 to 1860, when he relocated to Connecticut to become assistant editor of The Hartford Press. By 1861 he had become editor, a position he held until 1867, when the paper merged into The Hartford Courant and he became co-editor with Joseph R. Hawley. 

In 1884 he joined the editorial staff of Harper's Magazine, for which he conducted The Editor's Drawer until 1892, when he took charge of The Editor's Study. [1]

He died in Hartford on October 20, 1900, and was interred at Cedar Hill Cemetery, with Mark Twain as a pall bearer and Joseph Twichell officiating.[2][3]

Warner traveled widely, lectured frequently, and was actively interested in prison reform, city park supervision, and other movements for the public good. He was the first president of the National Institute of Arts and Letters, and, at the time of his death, was president of the American Social Science Association. 

He first attracted attention with the reflective sketches in My Summer in a Garden (1870). First published as a series in The Hartford Courant, these sketches were popular for their abounding and refined humor and mellow personal charm, their love of the outdoors, their suggestive comment on life and affairs, and their delicately finished style, qualities that suggested the work of Washington Irving. In 1873, the work Warner is known for today, the novel he wrote with Mark Twain, was published. Called The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today, it gave that era of American history its name.

Charles Dudley Warner is known for making the famous remark, 

Quoted by Mark Twain in one of his many humorous lectures, Warner's quip is still commonly misattributed to Twain.[5]

Warner in 1875.

The citizens of San Diego so appreciated Warner's flattering description of their city in his book Our Italy that they named three consecutive streets in the Point Loma neighborhood after him: Charles Street, Dudley Street, and Warner Street.[6]

  • My Summer in a Garden and Calvin [his cat], A Study of Character (Boston: James R. Osgood & Co., 1870)
  • Saunterings (1872), descriptions of travel in Eastern Europe
  • BackLog Studies (1872)
  • Baddeck, And That Sort of Thing (1874), travels in Nova Scotia and elsewhere
  • My Winter on the Nile (1876)
  • In the Levant (1876)
  • In the Wilderness (1878)
  • A Roundabout Journey, in Europe (1883)
  • On Horseback, in the Southern States (1888)
  • Studies in the South and West, with Comments on Canada (1889)
  • Our Italy, etc. [A description of Southern California.] (1891)
  • The Relation of Literature to Life (1896)
  • The People for Whom Shakespeare Wrote (1897)
  • Fashions in Literature (1902)
Charles Dudley Warner.

He edited The American Men of Letters series, to which he contributed an excellent biography of Washington Irving (1881), and also edited a large Library of the World's Best Literature (1897).

Essays
  • As We Were Saying (1891)
  • As We Go (1893)
Novels