Author: SYLVESTER, CHARLES H.
Title: Journeys Through Bookland: A New and Original Plan for Reading, Applied to the World's Best Literature for Children (Volume Nine Only, of 10)
Description: Chicago: Bellows-Reeve Company, 1909. Hardcover. Volume nine only, of ten. An illustrated collection of classic stories suitable for reading by children. The stories were borrowed from notable works of literature by such authors as Washington Irving, Robert Browning, Lord Byron, Robert Burns, Charles and Mary Lamb, William Shakespeare and many others. With a color frontis illustrations from "The Tempest," plus numerous black & white illustrations scattered through the text and on gloss plates. The series of ten books was edited by Charles H. Sylvester and originally included an eleventh volume, in the form of a guide to the series. --- In light green buckram cloth-covered boards with cover & spine titling & decorations in gilt on darker green blocks. TEG (top edge gilt), with brown pictorial endpapers. --- A sound, tightly-bound, unmarked copy.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; viii, 491 pages. Very Good+ with no dust jacket .

Keywords: >>Classic Fiction, Literature >>Juvenile and Children's