Quo Vadis": A Narrative of the Time of Nero [Two Volume Set] by Henryk Sienkiewicz; Jeremiah Curtin [trans.]; Howard Pyle et al [illus.] - 1897

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1897. Very Good/Very Good. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1897. New Edition. Two volumes; thick octavos; publisher's pictorial gilt-stamped cloth in original dark blue cloth dust jackets, gilt-lettered spines, top edges gilt, deep maroon glazed endpaper; x,355; vi,352pp.; frontispieces, twenty-nine (29) leaves of plates including colored maps (collated complete). Light shelf wear, spines slightly cocked, else a Very Good, quite brilliant set in the unusual publisher's cloth dust jackets.

First American illustrated edition of the Polish author's historical novel, adorned with maps of ancient Rome, and photogravures from paintings by Howard Pyle, Edmund H. Garrett, and Evert Van Muyden.