SPLENDID BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED 20-VOLUME SET OF THE AUTHORS DIGEST: ONE OF ONLY 32 SETS, SIGNED BY ANDREW CARNEGIE

JOHNSON, Rossiter. Authors Digest: The World's Great Stories in Brief. No place: Authors Press, 1908. Twenty volumes. Octavo, contemporary full brown morocco gilt, spines and covers elaborately decorated with red and green morocco gilt floral inlays, brown and yellow morocco doublures with red and green morocco floral inlays, watered silk endpapers, top edges gilt, uncut and largely unopened. $16,500.

Autograph edition, number 2 of only 32 numbered copies, this set prepared for Hannah M. Standish and containing an article written and signed by Andrew Carnegie. A splendid production, with hand-colored initials and headpieces in the beginning of Volume I, numerous full-page illustrations, many hand-colored, and original ink illustrations on the first pages of dozens of articles, many hand-colored.

With introductory essay by Carnegie on Robert Burns. The set introduces the landmarks of European and American fiction by providing precis of significant novels, overviews of myth and folklore, a dictionary of authors, titles, and characters, and an index to the stories. Limitation page signed and sealed.

Interiors fine, a dozen volumes have been expertly restored, mostly at joints. A sumptuously bound set in excellent condition.