Bidspirit auction | Brewer, Character Sketches: Romance, Vol

Brewer, Character Sketches: Romance, Vol III, 1892 - This is a large-format hardcover book, identified as Volume III of Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama. The work is subtitled A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, authored by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D., and edited by Marion Harland. Published in New York by Selmar Hess, the title page bears the Roman numeral date MDCCCXCII (1892), which matches the copyright date of 1892 on the verso. The volume is bound in a half-leather style with brown textured cloth or leatherette boards and leather corner tips. The front cover features the title stamped in decorative gold gilt. The interior is illustrated with numerous full-page plates, including black-and-white engravings and at least one chromolithograph. Specific plates visible in the volume include Manfred and Astarte, Mignon, The Peri at Heaven's Gate, Romeo and Juliet in Friar Laurence's Cell, Madame Roland, and Abduction of Rebecca. The title page is printed in black with a decorative red initial C and the publisher's SH monogram device.