Epiphanius Wilson, A.M., Ed., "Literature of the Orient," The Colonial Press, 1902. Volumes additionally edited, grouped and classified by Sir Edwin Arnold, Max Müller LL.D., René Basset, Ph.D., Richard Gottheil, Ph.D., "and other Oriental scholars." "Byzantine Edition," limited to 500 numbered sets. 10 volumes.
A 10 volume set of eastern literature, including two volumes of Persian literature--with volume II including a selection of Japanese literature, too--as well as volumes of Chinese, Turkish, Hebrew, Babylonian, Assyrian, Egyptian, Hindu, and Moorish literatures, with a final volume entitled "Sacred Books of the East." Each volume contains a color frontispiece, as well as several interior color plates.
All ten volumes bear little outer wear, with a little faint rubbing at corners and spine ends, text blocks sagging slightly, minor scuffs and scattered light spots to boards. Due to age and storage conditions, the spine labels are almost totally worn away from most volumes, and there is some light silverfishing here and there to top page edges. Scattered light foxing can be seen at the deckled fore edges of pages on a few volumes. The tissue over the frontispieces of most volumes is foxed, as are the series title pages to varying degrees. All books either have a previous owner signature or bookplate on the FFEP. Structurally the bindings remain very sound, with no binding cracks across all volumes, most feeling unread. Overall a near VG+ set aside from the spine label damage. Scarce in general, rare as a group.
