The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: With a new atlas of the world
edited by Benjamin Smith
New York: Century Company, 1911. Half-Leather. Very Good Quarto - 12 1/8" x10".
12 volumes, includes atlas and supplement, black half leather, dark green cloth, handsome hubbed spines with gilt titles and decoration, figured endpapers, all page edges marbled, woven paper, inner dentelles, copiously illustrated. This is a bold, stout set that authoritatively fills 30" of shelf space. Set tops the scale at over 90 pounds! A dictionary with truly encyclopediac depth.
"The finest American historical dictionary, distinguished by its handsome design and quality of its paper and printing. It remains one of the most impressive achievements in American lexicography." Condition is VG+, with a small nick at the head of the spine of volume VII, and minor spotting and soil to the cloth covers, minor shelf wear to the bottom cover edges. In all, a clean and very handsome set!
