1885 - The Beautiful, The Wonderful and The Wise

By L. N. Chapin

Published 1885, First Edition
Smith & Miller, Publishers

The Crown Book - Presenting In Attractive Forms Some Of The Most Notable Things In Poetic Literature, In Science and Art, In History And Biography, In Earth, Sea and Sky In Philosophy And Music

Sections Include:

*The Best Poems, Old Favorites and New
*Some Notable Works Of Man
*Some Notable Things In History and Biography
*Some Notable Things In Nature
*Home Melodies 
*& More

In a stunning red cloth with pictorial stamped black and gilt detail to front board and spine, beveled edges to boards, gilt to all edges, decorative floral endpapers, frontispiece with tissue guard, extraordinary page detail with illustrations within, binding tight, clean pages, 512pp.

Very good antiquarian condition!!

Size: 6 1/2” x 9”

A wonderful keepsake/ treasure from the past.