New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1899. Purplish-blue cloth with ornate gilt designs, gilt topstains. Tissue-guarded frontispiece in each volume. Complete in 22 volumes. First edition, first issue. (All title pages except last two volumes are dated 1899. Later volumes were issued sequentially and the latter two were probably first issued later in 1900 as per their title page dates.) Near Fine condition. Uniform light sunning to spines, occasional light rubbing/scratching to back cloth. Gilt strong, clean text, tissue-guards intact. Snag to head of vol. #1 and crease to title page, small tear to head cloth of #3. A handsome set of Tolstoy in English translation, including War and Peace, Anna Karenina, Ivan Illyitch, Kingdom of God etc.We specialize in rare and out-of-print books! Visit our eBay store.