WHAT THE WORLD BELIEVES: The False and The True, Embracing the People of All Races and Nations, Their Peculiar Teachings, Rites, Ceremonies, Traditions, and Customs, Public and Private, Together with a Full Account of the Origin, Rise and Progress of Their Various Sects. Historical, Doctrinal, Statistical and Biographical.
New York: Gay Brothers & Co., [1884]. First Edition. Hardcover. Thick octavo: 899, [1, blank] pp. with the frontispiece with tissue guard, 44 full-page plates, and 57 textual vignettes, all wood engravings after illustrations, as well as 7 full-page portrait plates, all steel engravings after photographs and illustrations. In the publisher's red calf binding, with overall blind-stamped crocodile skin pattern and decorative gilt-stamped titling. All edges marbled, with buff endpapers with a brown-printed floral pattern. Light rubbing along the extremities, largely at the corners and tips; else near fine. Provenance: from the Publishers' Bookbindings collection of Ellen K. Morris and Edward S. Levin. Near fine. Item #79681
Price: $250.00