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THIS MAGNIFICENT AND VERY RARE SET (22 VOLUMES OF 25) OF ANTIQUE (1907) "THE HISTORIANS HISTORY OF THE WORLD" ENCYCLOPEDIAS WAS DONATED TO ATHLONE BOYS HIGH SCHOOL IN 1968 BY YEOVILLE BOYS PREPARATORY SCHOOL. THE SET EXCLUDES VOLUMES 2, 13 AND 18. TWO OF THE COVERS (SPINES) OF THE BOOKS WOULD NEED TO BE REPAIRED AND THERE IS SOME AGE AND USAGE RELATED WEAR AND TEAR. THIS INCREDIBLE SET HAS ENDURED 107 YEARS OF LIFE.
FROM THE INTERNET: "The Historians' History of the World, subtitled A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise and Development of Nations as Recorded by over two thousand of the Great Writers of all Ages, is a 25-volume encyclopaedia of world history originally published in English near the beginning of the 20th century. It is quite extensive and its perspective is entirely Western Eurocentric. It was compiled by Henry Smith Williams, a medical doctor and author of many books on medicine, science, and history, as well as other authorities on history, and published in New York in 1902 by Encyclopædia Britannica, it was also published in London printed by Morrison & Gibb Limited, of Edinburgh. A second edition was published in 1907. Two further volumes were subsequently released, dealing with the First World War".
LINK: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Historians'_History_of_the_World
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