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...READY.- The superb Wormly Ed. of Balzac, published at an expense of over $100.000 and strictly limited to 250 numbered copies. The illustrations are by Goupil and Co., Paris. The publisher's order was to spare no expense, to employ only the most famous of the French artists. The result is 586 truly magnificent etchings on the heaviest India paper (a separate book with this Ed. gives portraits and histories of the artists selected, nearly all being medalists) making this Ed. by all odds the most beautiful and artistic Balzac extant. Translated by one person throughout and conceded by experts...
...READY.- The superb Wormly Ed. of Balzac, published at an expense of over $100.000 and strictly limited to 250 numbered copies. The illustrations are by Goupil and Co., Paris. The publisher's order was to spare no expense, to employ only the most famous of the French artists. The result is 586 truly magnificent etchings on the heaviest India paper (a separate book with this Ed. gives portraits and histories of the artists selected, nearly all being medallists) making this Ed. by all odds the most beautiful and artistic Balzac extant. Translated by one person throughout and conceded by experts...
...BALZAC'S complete Comedie Humaine, in perfect translation at special low price. Complete editions of Hugo, Dumas, Scott, Thackeray, Shakespeare, Crimes of History, Secret Court Memoirs, Irving, Cooper, Emerson, Holmes, Hawthorne, etc. The works of all the great writers, past and present. Immediate delivery of complete sets made while gradual payments will be accepted. 25 cents per week will commence your library. Address, Library, CRIMSON...
...understand," writes The Academy, "That Mr. George Saintsbury is withdrawing from all literary work not closely connected with the subjects of the chair at Edinburgh to which he has been appointed. He will, however, still contribute the prefaces to Macmillan and Co.'s edition of "Balzac," which were entirely written before the appointment...
...index to good books, to note those on which many of the thirty were agreed. Some work of Scott's was selected by almost all, Henry Esmond by seventeen, some work of Victor Hugo's by sixteen, Vanity Fair by fifteen, Don Quixote, Middlemarch, and one of Balzac's by twelve, Tom Jones by ten, Adam Bede, David Copperfield, and one of Miss Austen's by nine, Tess of the D'Urbervilles and Kidnapped or David Balfour by seven, the Pickwick Papers and a Tale of Two Cities by six, and Gil Blas by five...