1901 - The World Beautiful in Books, First Edition

By Lilian Whiting

Published 1901
Little, Brown, and Company

“If the crowns of the world were laid at my feet in exchange for my love of reading, I would spurn them all.”
~Fenelon

Chapters Include:

*As Food For Life
*Opening Golden Doors
*The Rose of Morning
*The Chariot of the Soul
*The Witness of Dawn

Ivory cloth beautifully illustrated with gilt detail to cover and spine, binding tight, clean pages, gilt top edges, very lovely deckled edges to side and bottom edges, 413pp. In very good antiquarian condition.

Size: 4 3/4” x 7 1/4”