Tales from Shakespeare (The Children's Bookshelf series)

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: John C. Winston Co., 1914. Hardcover. Good+/No Jacket. One of a lovely series of classic books for young readers in Winston's "Children's Bookshelf" series, each illustrated by famous artists of the day, each with a colorful paper pastedown to the front board. This one contains 20 prose renditions (each with 1 full color illustration by "a famous German artist"--unnamed) of William Shakespeare's comedies & tragedies by the brother-sister 19th-century essayist team, Charles & Mary Lamb, which became one of their most famous works following its initial publication in England in 1807. This edition, orig. issued in 1914, has a colorful frontispiece & 18 full-color, full-page plates throughout the 323 pages of text. The hardcover book has deep green cloth-covered boards with colorful front paper pastedown. Condition is overall Good: generally very clean, pages surprisingly white & unmarked, binding tight & square. All plates are intact & beautiful & unfoxed, but the frontispiece is completely loose, as is the title page & pgs i-ii of the Introduction. General light rubbing to extremities, bumped corners; former owner's bookplate & name in pen on ffep. NO DJ. Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same Day Shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (Pacific); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day.