Ready in October.
A HANDSOME LARGE PAPER EDITION OF
The Works of Wm. Hickling Prescott.
In 15 Volumes 8vo, cloth (not sold separately).
With 30 Portraits printed on India paper.
Athenæum.
“In point of style Prescott ranks with the ablest English historians, and paragraphs may be found in his volumes in which the grace and elegance of Addison are combined with Robertson’s majestic cadence and Gibbon’s brilliancy.”
J. Lothrop Motley.
“Wherever the English language is spoken over the whole earth his name is perfectly familiar. We all of us know what his place was in America. But I can also say that in eight years (1851-59) passed abroad I never met a single educated person of whatever nation that was not acquainted with his fame, and hardly one who had not read his works. No living American name is so widely spread over the whole world.”
NOTE.—Only a limited number of this Edition is printed.