Bidspirit auction | 15 Easton Press Leather Bound

15 Easton Press Leather Bound Books - A collection of 15 classic literary titles published by Easton Press. Each volume is bound in genuine leather with various colors including black, green, navy, maroon, and brown. The bindings feature hubbed spines, elaborate gilt-decorated covers and spines, all-edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, and permanent satin ribbon bookmarks. The titles include selections from the 100 Greatest Books Ever Written and Masterpieces of American Literature series. Titles include: Thomas Paine, Rights of Man; Washington Irving, The Alhambra; Moliere, Tartuffe & The Would-Be Gentleman; Upton Sinclair, The Jungle; Voltaire, Candide; Robert Browning, The Poems of Robert Browning; Herman Melville, Billy Budd and Benito Cereno; Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy; Ivan Turgenev, Fathers & Sons; Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod; Ambrose Bierce, The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter; Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi (noted as bonded leather fibers); Charles Dickens, David Copperfield; Ovid, The Art of Love; and Henry W. Simon, A Treasury of Christmas Songs and Carols. Each volume is a collector's edition containing specialized introductions and illustrations by notable artists such as Lynd Ward, Thomas Hart Benton, and Eric Fraser. Marked on the title pages Easton Press, Norwalk, Connecticut. Largest: 11” H x 7” W x 1” D. Location: 15D