Familiar Quotations: Being an Attempt to Trace to their Sources Passages and Phrases in Common Use (Signed)

John Bartlett

Little, Brown, and Co, 1886

[Autographed copy of the America's most popular book of quotations] Signed and inscribed on the first free end page, "John Glenn, with cordial regards of John Bartlett." 2 volume set. Bound in handsome 3/4 brown cloth, over marbled boards.  Very good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. 904 p.   From the library of John Glenn, (1858-1950), of the prominent Baltimore family.  Glenn was director of the Russell Sage Foundation, a noted philanthropist, and Johns Hopkins trustee. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is still in print in its seventeenth edition.