A Library of Choice Prose in 12 Volumes. Published by Gresham Publishing.

This is a beautiful set of A Library of Choice Prose in 12 Volumes, complete with original storage box. 
Undated but c. 1900. Published by Gresham Publishing. 
Each volume is in beautiful condition. Bound in soft grey/green cloth with a lovely gilt/green Art Nouveau design to the spine with gilt lettering, and a pictorial design to the front cover, also in gilt/green. Decorative endpapers which are free from inscriptions. Contents clean and bright. Top edges gilt. The set comes complete with the original green storage box, which has not fared so well over the years, but which has undoubtedly protected the books from damage. It is soiled, scratched, worn around the edges and the rear top edge of the lid has split, though it remains firmly attached due to the fabric covering. When the lid is opened the underside of the lid has a label entitled 'A Library of Choice Prose,' and a list of the writers and their works that make up the set. It also has a name on it, written in ink. 
A truly lovely and somewhat scarce set, in exceptionally good condition. 
The titles are as follows: 
Montaigne's - Essays, translated by John Florio. with an introduction by Charles Whibley. 
Sir Francis Bacon - Essays, or Civil and Moral, with an introduction by Frederic Harrison
Charles Lamb - Essays of Elia, with an introduction by Augustine Birrell
Thomas Carlyle - Essays with an introduction by Frederic Harrison
Sir Thomas More - Utopia, translated by Ralph Robinson, with an introduction by H. G. Wells. 
Henry David Thoreau - Walden, or Life in the Woods, with an introduction by Richard Whiteing
William Hazlitt - Essays, with an introduction by Charles Whibley
Walter Savage Landor - Imaginary Conversations, selected with an introduction by Sir. J. P. Mahaffy.
John Ruskin - Sesame and Lillies and Unto this Last - with an introduction by Alice Meynell.
Thomas a Kempis. The Imitation of Christ, with an introduction by The Very Rev. H. C. Beeching. 
Boswell - Johnson's Table Talk: A Selction of his Main Topics and Opinions Taken from Boswell's Life and Arranged by W. A. Lewis Bettany. 
Emerson - Essays, with an introduction by Richard Whiteing.
Each volume measures: 14.5 cm x 9.5cm. 
The set weighs 2.4kg without packaging.