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Franklin Library Books
The Franklin Library was the publishing division of The Franklin Mint. The Franklin Library published its first book in 1973, and closed its doors for good in 2000, after losing the competitive battle with The Easton Press for the popular market for finely-bound leather books. Today, the lavishly- produced leather books issued by the Franklin Library are highly sought after in the collectibles market. Please peruse the available titles below. All titles are decorated Buckram with ribbed leather spines; all edges gilt; satin ribbon markers; marbled endpapers. Unless otherwise described, all titles are in VG+ condition or better. All except two volumes have "The Heirloom Library" bookplate with subscriber's name.Titles offered for $10.00 each:
1) De Balzac, Honore. Pere Goriot. Illus. by Albert Lynch. (1980) 12 mo., 376 pp. Blue/Blue. 2) Eliot, George. The Mill on the Floss. Illus. by Herbert Tauss. (1981) 8 vo., 536 pp. Green/Green. 3) Mann, Thomas. The Magic Mountain. Trans. by H.T. Lowe-Porter. Illus. by Gonzalo Fonseca. (1981) 8 vo., 724 pp. Brown/Brown. 4) Stendhal. The Red and the Black. Trans. by Charles Tergie. Illus. by Jean Paul Quint. (1981) 8 vo., 496 pp. Grey/Grey. 5) Voltaire. Candide. Trans. by Tobias Smollet. Illus. by Antoni Clave. (1979) 8 vo. 154 pp. Green/Black.Titles offered for $15.00 each:
6) Aristotle. Rhetoric and On Poetics. Trans. by W. Rhys Roberts and Ingram Bywater. 16 illus. from the 1759 edition of Cesare Ripa's works. (1981) Sm. 8 vo., 244 pp. Brown/Brown. 7) Hardy, Thomas. The Return of the Native. Illus. by Ben Wohlberg. (1980) 8 vo., 418 pp. Brown/Brown. 8) James, Henry. The Ambassadors. Illus. by Mitchell Hooks. (1981) 8 vo., 418 pp. Blue/Blue. 9) Rabelais, Francois. The Histories of Gargantua and Pantagruel. Trans. by John M. Cohen. With illus. by Frank C. Pape. (1982) 8 vo., 715 pp. A minor ripple to first few pages; some wear to gilt on foredges; still VG to VG+. Red/Red. 10) Tacitus. The Annals. Trans. of Alfred John Church and William Jackson Brodribb. Illus. from etchings by Giovanni Battista Piranesi. (1982) 8 vo., 375 pp. Blue/Blue.A Few More Uncommon Titles:
11) Chaucer, Geoffrey. Canterbury Tales. In contemporary verse by J.U. Nicolson. Illus. with the woodcuts of William Caxton. (1981) 8 vo., 618 pp. Green/Green. $20.00 12) Greek Tragedies. The Great Tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides. Illus. by Quentin Fiore. (1982) 8 vo., 360 pp. Green/Green. $25.00 13) Homer. The Iliad. In Contemporary Verse by Robert Fitzgerald. Illus. by W.T. Mars. (1979) 8 vo., 665 pp. Brown/Brown. $30.00 14) Proust, Marcel. Swann's Way. Trans. by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin. Illus. by Malcolm Liepke. (1983) 8 vo., 486 pp. Red/Burgundy. $25.00 15) Sterne, Laurence. The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy, Gentleman. Illus. after Harry Furniss. (1981) Red/Red. $25.00