Pictorial history of the world's great nations.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yonge, Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary), 1823-1901.

Contributor:

Doyle, John Andrew, 1844-1907.

Freeman, Edward A. (Edward Augustus), 1823-1892.

Books in Parts Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World history--Juvenile literature.

World history.

Greece--History--Juvenile literature.

Greece.

History.

Rome--History--Juvenile literature.

Rome.

Rome (Empire).

Penn Provenance:

Zinman, Michael (donor)

Physical Description:

50 parts : illustrations ; 29 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Selmar Hess, [1882?]

Notes:

"The Pictorial history of the world's great nations comprises the histories of Greece, Rome, Germany, France, England, and the United States. These Histories, excepting the History of America, were written by ... Miss Charlotte M. Yonge. Of [the United States], we have preferred the History written by Mr. John A. Doyle and edited by the eminent historian E.A. Freeman, D.C.L."--Prospectus.

Title and imprint from front wrapper.

The complete work appeared in 1882.

"Complete in 50 parts."--Front wrapper.

"Each part will contain twenty-four pages of letter-press, and the entire work not fewer than fifty steel engravings; fifty large full-page wood illustrations, very carefully executed; and from three hundred to four hundred woodcuts in the text."--Prospectus.

Parts issued in illustrated paper wrappers printed with publisher's prospectus.

Local Notes:

Presented to the Penn Libraries by Michael Zinman.

Penn Libraries copy imperfect: RBC has pts. 5, 15-17, 22-29, 40 only; title leaf wanting.

Penn Libraries copy has many leaves unopened; pts. 27-29 each without steel engraving.

OCLC:

259235610