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London, U.K. : George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, 1952 Collectible. Beautifully illustrated with coloured and black & white illustrations. No dustjacket. Age and shelf wear - edges of boards worn, corners bumped. Spine sundamaged. Sewing of the inside back and front boards loose. Clean text pages, no internal markings. Published by George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd - March 1952 reprint (first published 1943). Subject title: "Being a true and faithful account of a number of highly interesting meetings with certain historical personages, from Confucius and Plato to Voltaire and Thomas Jefferson, about whom we had always felt a great deal of curiosity and who came to us as our dinner guests in a bygone year". Coloured illustrated endpapers (front & back). Includes a list of people mentioned in the book. Some of the "guests" are: Erasmus; George Washington; Sir Thomas More; Cervantes; Shakespeare; Moliere; Descartes; Queen Elizabeth I; Robespierre; St Francis; Mozart;… Read More