Tales from Ariosto by NICHOLSON SHIELD, .J

Macmillan and Co. Ltd., 1913. Hardcover. Good. 1913. No edition remarks. 298 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth covered boards with gilt. Black and white frontispiece. Pages have mild tanning and foxing throughout, moderate at end-papers, paste-downs and text-block edges. Pages 127 to 132 have a crease down the long edge. Ex Libris plate to front free end-paper. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Gilt lettering is bright and clear. Mild crushing to spine ends. Book has a slight forward lean.

New.

Macmillan & Co, Ltd., 1913. Covers a little worn and stained, titles in gilt on spine 'like new', endpapers discoloured, unmarked, illustrated, 298pp, VG/--.. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket.

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1913. Cloth. Very Good. 8.5" by 6". None. A smart copy of this collection of tales from Ludovico Ariosto, collected by Joseph Shield Nicholson. With a portrait frontispiece. A collection of tales from Italian poet Ludovico Ariosto, best remembered as the author of the romance epic Orlando Furioso. This text includes: The Fountain of Hate and the River of Love, Mandricardo and Doralis, Zerbino and Isabella, and many others. Collected by Joseph Shield Nicholson, an English economist. In the original blue cloth binding. Externally, very smart with light shelf wear and minor rubbing to the extremities. Front hinge starting but firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd spot. Light age toning to the endpapers. Very Good

MACMILLAN 1913. UK 1ST EDITION.. hardcover. Good. in x in x in. A clean, tight copy. Bookplate to the front endpaper. Light wear to the edges.