SHAKESPEARIAN FAIRY TALES
Book Details + Condition: The Reilly and Britton Co (Chicago). First Edition,1907. Hardcover with decorated boards. 143 pages, with wonderful Art Nouveau illustrations by Clara Powers Wilson. In this illustrated story book, author Fay Adams Britton presents William Shakespeare's most famous plays as short stories for children. Chapters include:
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- The Merchant of Venice
- King Lear
- The Winter's Tale
- The Taming of the Shrew
- Macbeth
- The Tempest
- Cymbeline
- And more.
Firm binding; rubbed corners and edges; wear to boards, with rubbing and darkening present; chafed spine ends; missing blank ffep; small numerical notation to rear inside board; interior pages are otherwise clean and free of markings.