TALES FROM SHAKESPEARE

J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia.  Copyright, 1893 and 1894 by J. B. Lippincott Company on copyright page; date on title page MDCCCXCIV.   Hard cover; Volume I – 197 pages, Volume II - 222 pages.  Green and tan boards, top edge gilt, gilt lettering and decoration on front board and spine; fore and bottom edges rough cut.  Corners show some wear with tiny bits of board visible; spine ends worn with some splits to cloth and very small losses, tiny loss on rear spine edge, less than 1 1/2cm tear to cloth at top rear spine edge, bit of fraying.  Some discolouration to boards and a few small stains; a few small stains/spots on lower fore-edge page block and inside edge of front board.  Title page in black and red type.  Binding sound with headbands; all pages secure.  Interior pages unmarked, occasional soil spot, occasional fox spot; a few pages remain uncut; old drop(?) mark in blank space on p. 31 of Volume II, straightened corner bend.  Tears to front and rear paste-downs/end papers at gutters; ‘Peter Paul Book Co., Buffalo, -N.Y.’ label affixed at lower front paste-down.  All illustrations are full page in black and white with tissue guards intact; tissue guards labeled in red type.  The following plays have been rendered into Prose:  Volume I – Love’s Labour’s Lost, Merry Wives of Windsor, Troilus and Cressida, King John, King Richard II, King Henry IV – Part I, King Henry IV -Part II, and King Henry V.  Volume II – King Henry VI – Part I, King Henry VI – Part II, King Henry VI – Part III, King Richard III, King Henry VIII, Coriolanus, Julius Caesar, and Anthony And Cleopatra.