The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 1

The Great Events by Famous Historians, edited by Rossiter Johnson, LL.D., was published in 1905 by The National Alumni, New York, as a limited United Empire Edition of one thousand complete sets. This is Volume I, covering B.C. 5867–451, and the volume that carries the set's official limitation statement, registered as No. 363 of 1,000 complete sets, along with a facsimile signature believed to be that of King Edward VII. The boards are bound in deep red cloth, elaborately blind-stamped in a repeating geometric and foliate pattern. The spine is lettered in bright gold against the same red cloth. The binding is firm and the pages are clean, unmarked, deckle-edged, and show very little sign of aging, with the tissue guard protecting the frontispiece present and intact.