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University Library of Autobiography 15 volume Limited President's Edition (University Library of Autobiography, 15 volumes) [Leather Bound]

Leading Scholars and Educators of America (Editor)

New York: F. Tyler Daniels Co., Inc., (1918). President's Edition, limited to 1,050 numbered copies. Hardcover. Complete in 15 volumes. Quarto. Original publisher's full brown leather binding with color illustration stamped on front cover and blind-stamped spine. Top edge gilt. Deckled fore- and bottom edges. Ribbon marker. Each volume with decorative series title-page and individual title-page. Illustrations of autobiographical persons in gravure after paintings, drawings and photographs. Each plate protected by captioned tissue-guard. Limitation page with decorative golden border. Some pages unopened, as issued. Printed on high-quality rag paper. "University Library of Autobiography: Including All the Great Autobiographies and the Autobiographical Data Left by the World's Famous Men and Women / Edited With Introductions, Essays and Appreciations by the Leading Scholars and Educators of America."

Some age wear on head and tail of spine, some corners and parts of edges. Spines sunned. Ex-libris of Walter F. Haas on inside of front covers. Haas was an Los Angeles Attorney-at-Law in the 1880's. In 1891 he was admitted to the Supreme Court of California. The following year he was appointed to the United States District Court, United States Circuit, and United States Circuit Court of Appeals. He also belonged to the Palestine Lodge No. 351, the Union League Club, L.A. Chamber of Commerce, and other clubs and associations. Small closed tear on bottom edge of title-page in vol. V. Bindings in overall good+, interior in very good to near fine condition. Item #29915

Vol. I) Autobiography in the Ancient World (B.C. 3800 - A.D. 430), including the self-narratives of King Sargon, founder of ancient Babylon; Senacherib, the Assyrian ravager of Jerusalem; Socrates, wisest of Greek philosophers; Xenophon, noblest of Greek heroes; Julius Caesar, first of Roman emperors; Josephus, the renowned Jewish patriot; Marcus Aurelius, profoundest of Roman thinkers; and Saint Augustine, the great leader of Christian thought. xxxviii, 387, 920pp. With introductory essays by James H. Kirkland, Robert E. Vinson, and William H. P. Faunce.

Vol. II) The Middle Ages and their Autobiographies (A.D. 1000 - 1500), including the self-narratives of Avicenna, greatest of Arabic Scientists; Al Ghazali, foremost disciple of Mohammed; Abelard, chief teacher of medieval Europe; Salimbene, frankest of monkish chroniclers; Dante, the greatest mind of Italy; Petrarch, the first modern man; Timur the Lame, mightiest of Asiatic conquerors; Froissart, most gay of chroniclers; and Comines, the first watchful observer of the humanness of kings. xviii, 403, [2]pp. Introductory essay by Charles J. Bushnell.

Vol. III) The Beginnings of the Modern World (A.D. - 1500 - 1550), including the self-narratives of Luther, founder of Modern Protestantism; Henry the Eighth, the most married of kings; Thomas Platter, a simple Swiss peasant; Charles the Fifth, the chief sovereign of the age; Benvenuto Cellini, the world-famed artist and adventurer; and Jerome Cardan, the first scientific student of self. xvii, 399, [2]pp. Introductory essay by Ray L. Wilbur.

Vol. IV) Autobiography During the Religious Wars from the Spanish Saint Teresa to the English Cavaliers (1550 - 1630), including the self-narratives of Saint Teresa, seer of ecstatic visions; Sir Francis Drake, greatest of naval heroes; Mary Queen of Scots, most loved of Scottish sovereigns; Sir Thomas Bodley, founder of the first public library; Sir Walter Raleigh, most gallant of cavaliers; Marguerite de Valois, fairest of French princesses; Duke de Sully, the friend of Henry IV of France; Sir Francis Bacon, foremost of philosophers; Lord Herbert of Cherbury, "the black lord"; and Sir Kenelm Digby, prince of lovers and adventurers. xxi, 400, [2]pp. Introductory essay by A. C. McGiffert.

Vol. V) Autobiographers of the Seventeenth century (1630 - 1690), including the self-narratives of William Lilly, the astrologist and charlatan; John Milton, greatest of religious poets; Count de Grammont, gayest of French gallants; George Fox, founder of the Quakers; John Bunyan, the reformed drunkard and visionary; Princess Sophia of Hanover, ancestress of the British and German sovereigns; Samuel Pepys, most noted of gossips; and Sir Isaac Newton, greatest of scientists. xx, 390, [2]pp. Introductory essays by George C. Chase and Winthrope E. Stone.

Vol. VI) Autobiography in the Early Eighteenth Century (1690 - 1750), including the self-narratives of Colley Cibber, coxcomb and theatre manager; Duke de Saint Simon, the haughty critic of kings; Lewis Holberg, founder of Danish culture; Mohammed Ali Hazin, Persian poet and patriot; and Benjamin Franklin, chief of American philosophers. xvii, 403, [2]pp. Introductory essay by John G. Hibben.

Vol. VII) Autobiography in the Days of Frederick the Great (1730 - 1770), including the self-narratives of Rev. John Wesley, the founder of Methodism; Carlo Goldoni, prince of Italian comedy writers; Dr. Samuel Johnson, sturdiest of British scholars; Wilhelmine of Baireuth, sister of Frederick the Great; David Hume, chief of Scottish historians; Frederick the Great, founder of Prussia's military empire; and Jean Jacques Rousseau, the frankest and most famed of autobiographies. xviii, 424, [2]pp. Introductory essay by Edwin A. Alderman.

Vol. VIII) Autobiographers of the Close of the Ancient Regime (1740 - 1780), including the self-narratives of Marmontel, the French peasant and litterateur; Latude, the prisoner who caused the destruction of the Bastille; Casanova, the most fascinating of scoundrels; Baron Trenck, hero of the most stupendous prison escapes; Oliver Goldsmith, most irresponsible and charming of Irish authors; Catharine the Great, Empress of Russia; and Joseph Priestley, the noted chemist, philosopher and theologian. xvii, 432, [2]pp. Introductory essay by Edgar F. Smith.

Vol. IX) Autobiography at the Opening of the Revolutionary Age (1750 - 1790), including the self-narratives of Washington, the liberator of America; Edward Gibbon, the historian of the ancient world; Thomas Jefferson, the founder of American democracy; MME. du Barry, the real ruler of France under Louis XV; and Goethe, the greatest poet and thinker of the German race. xvi, 417, [2]pp. Introductory essay by Wilbur L. Cross.

Vol. X) Autobiographers of the Later Revolutionary Days (1770 - 1804), including the self-narratives of Alfieri, Italy's great tragic poet and apostle of freedom; Solomon Maimon, the remarkable Jewish philosopher; Madame Roland, noblest of French revolutionists; John Marshall, Chief Justice of the United States; Alexander Hamilton, Financial Founder of the United States; Lafayette, "the friend of America"; Admiral Nelson, Britain's greatest naval genius; Mary Robinson, actress, poetess, and playtoy of a British prince; and Robert Burns, Scotland's national poet. xix, 397, [2]pp. Introductory essay by Lyman P. Powell.

Vol. XI) Autobiography in the Age of Napoleon (1780 - 1820), including the self-narrative of Fouché, Napoleon's celebrated Minister of Police; Napoleon, the greatest military genius of France; Wellington, the conqueror of Napoleon; William Wordsworth, greatest of nature poets; Sir Walter Scott, foremost of romantic story-tellers; Metternich, chief of the statesmen opposed to Napoleon; and Eugene Vidocq, the original of all story-book detectives. xvi, 413, [2]pp. Introductory essay by John B. Shaw.

Vol. XII) Autobiographers of the Reactionary Age (1790 - 1840), including the self-narratives of Princess Marie Therese, daughter of France's executed king and queen; Froebel, founder of modern child-education; De Quincey, the most remarkable of opium victims; Peter Cartwright, an American backwoods preacher; Benjamin Haydon, a leader of British art; Lord Byron, the foremost literary and romantic figure of the age; and Heinrich Heine, most cosmopolitan of poets and satirists. xiv, 402, [2]pp. Introductory essay by Edwin E. Sparks.

Vol. XIII) Autobiography in the Middle of the Nineteenth Century (1820 - 1870), including the self-narratives of Cardinal Newman, the famed English convert to Catholicism; Victor Hugo, the greatest of French romantic writers; Marie Asmar, a modern princess of Babylon; Hans Christisn Andersen, most beloved of Danish writers; Eugenie de Guerin, a gentle French Catholic devotee; John Stuart Mill, sternest of utilitarian philosophers; and Longfelllow, foremost of American poets. xix, 430, [2]pp. Introductory essays by Rev. Alphonsus J. Donlon and Rev. Charles Franklin Thwing.

Vol. XIV) Autobiography in the Victorian Age (1830 - 1890), including the self-narratives of Garibaldi, the hero of united Italy; Lincoln, America's chief martyr; Charles Darwin, foremost of scientists; Charles Dickens, most read of novelists; Richard Wagner, mightiest of musicians; Sir Henry Bessemer, most successful of metallurgists; Bismarck, creator of the German Empire; Ruskin, the most famed of art critics; Victoria, Britain's best loved queen; Herbert Spencer, greatest of modern philosophers; and Henri Amiel, the Swiss dreamer and poet. xxiv, 394, [2]pp. Introductory essays by Ernest M. Hopkins and Richard C. MacLaurin.

Vol. XV) Recent Great Autobiographies (1860 - 1914), including the self-narratives of Ernest Renan, the great French historian; Thomas Huxley, the literary champion of modern science; Leo Tolstoy, greatest of Russian teachers; Arminius Vambery, first of Asiatic explorers; Sir Archibald Geikie, most noted of Scottish scientists; Sonya Kovalevsky, a Russian woman pioneer; Oscar Wilde, dramatist and aesthete; Marie Bashkirtseff, the frankest revealer of the feminine heart; Clarence Hawkes, a true American hero; and Clifford Beers, the autobiographer of insanity. xviii, 388, [2]pp. Introductory essay by Mary E. Wooley.

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