c1880-1915 The Renegade, Through Bible Lands, The Gorilla Hunters, The Lamplighter, Scottish Chiefs, & More About Pixie

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Colour Plates, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

Six volumes. This set contains: The Renegade, 1915. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and seven colour plates. Collated complete. Written by John Finnemore, a British school teacher, novelist, and writer of history and geography texts primarily for younger readers. Illustrated by Allan Stewart, a Scottish painter and illustrator. Through Bible Lands: Notes of Travel in Egypt, The Desert, and Palestine, c1880. Illustrated with a frontispiece and eighteen plates. Collated complete. Written by Philip Schaff, a Swiss-born, German-educated Protestant theologian and ecclesiastical historian. With an essay of Egyptology and the Bible by Edouard Naville, a Swiss archaeologist, Egyptologist and Biblical scholar. The Gorilla Hunters, c1905. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, colour title page, and seven colour plates. Collated complete. Written by Robert Michael Ballantyne, a Scottish author of juvenile fiction, who wrote more than a hundred books. He was also an accomplished artist, exhibiting some of his water-colours at the Royal Scottish Academy and illustrating some of his novels. The Lamplighter, c1890. Illustrated with a frontispiece and three plates. Collated complete. Written by Maria Susanna Cummins, an American novelist best known for this work. Scottish Chiefs, c1900. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, colour title page, and seven colour plates. Collated complete. Written by Jane Porter, an English historical novelist, dramatist and literary figure. Illustrated by Walter G. Grieve, a Scottish artist and illustrator. More About Pixie, c1920. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece. Lacking title page. Written by Jessie Bell, an English writer who wrote under her married name Mrs George de Horne Vaizey.