Tobacconist's display cabinet for the world popular Peterson Pipes. 38" H x 251/4" W x 41/2" D.
Interior stained, faded. Split to top. Loss to back. Fair condition total but a really unusual piece of tobacciana.
Full 50-volume set of The Millenium Edition of the Harvard Classics from Easton Press and 49 blank bookplates.
Only 3 volumes (Manzoni; Plato, Epictetus, Aurelius; and Burke) have actually been eliminated from the publisher's cling wrap.
Easton Press books are bound in genuine premium leather and use moire material endsheets and a long-term satin ribbon page pen. The spinal columns of these glamorous books are accentuated in 22-karat gold and are hubbed with traditional raised rings. Each special binding is decorated with a deeply inlaid design of 22-karat gold. The page ends are gilded in 22-karat gold for appeal and defense versus dust and humidity. Easton Press Books are also printed on archival-quality acid-neutral paper that is Smyth-sewn for strength and resilience.
The existing cost for this set from Easton Press is roughly $3,500.
The 50 volumes are: Plutarch's Lives / Plato, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius / Bacon, Milton's Prose, Thomas Browne / Milton's Complete Poems in English / Emerson's Essays and English Traits / Robert Burns' Poems and Songs / St. Augustine-- Confessions and The Imitation of Christ / Nine Greek Dramas / Letters and Treatises of Cicero and Pliny / Adam Smith-- The Wealth of Nations / Darwin-- The Origin of Species / Benjamin Franklin, John Woolman, William Penn / Virgil's Aeneid / Cervantes-- Don Quixote / Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress; Walton's Life of Donne and Herbert / The Thousand and One Nights (Arabian Nights) / Folk-lore and Fable of Aesop, Grimm, Andersen / Modern English Drama / Goethe's Faust and Egmont; Marlowe's Dr. Faustus / Dante-- The Divine Comedy / Manzoni-- I Promessi Sposi / Homer-- The Odyssey / Dana-- Two Years Before the Mast / Burke-- On the Sublime, The French Revolution / John Stuart Mill and Thomas Carlyle / Continental Drama / English Essays, Sidney to Macaulay / Essays, English and American / Darwin-- Voyage of the Beagle / Scientific Papers of Faraday, Helmholtz, Kelvin and others / Cellini-- Autobiography / Montaigne, Sainte-Beuve, Renan-- Essays / Voyages and Travels / Descartes, Voltaire, Rousseau, Hobbes / Froissart, Malory, Holinshed-- Chronicles and Legends / Machiavelli, More, Luther / Locke, Berkeley, Hume / Scientific Papers of Harvey, Jenner, Lister, Pasteur / Famous Prefaces / English Poetry Volume I / English Poetry Volume II / English Poetry Volume III / American Historical Documents / Sacred Writings Volume I / Sacred Writings Volume II / Elizabethan Drama Volume I / Elizabethan Drama Volume II / Pascal-- Thoughts / Epic and Saga / Introduction, Reader's Guide, Indexes.