BOOKS OF DISTINCTION MADE FROM OTHER BOOKS ON PURPOSE FOR BOYS AND GIRLS
"Tales from Shakespeare"
BY CHARLES AND MARY LAMB
*"Tales from Shakespeare." Illustrated in colour and black-and-white by Arthur Rackham. 8vo. Cloth, $2.50. Dutton.
"Tales from Shakespeare." Illustrated in colour and black-and-white by George Soper. Square 8vo. Cloth, $1.50. Baker. An attractive edition.
*"Tales from Shakespeare." Illustrated by Byam Shaw. 8vo. Cloth, $1.00. Macmillan. An 8vo. edition at $2.50.
"Tales from Shakespeare." Illustrated in colour by N. M. Price. 8vo. Cloth, $2.50. Scribner importation.
"Tales from Shakespeare." Illustrated by twelve plates from the Boydell Gallery. 8vo. Cloth, $3.00. Scribner importation.
"Tales from Shakespeare." Illustrated in colour and black-and-white by Walter Paget. 8vo. Cloth, $2.50. A Nister book. Dutton. With the original preface and with "Pericles" omitted.
"Tales from Shakespeare." Introduction by Andrew Lang. Illustrated. Crown 8vo. Cloth, $1.50. Lippincott.
*"Tales from Shakespeare." Illustrated by Romney, Hamilton, Kauffman, and others, selected from the Boydell engravings. 12mo. Cloth, $.50. Oxford Press.
"Tales from Shakespeare." Illustrated. 16mo. Half-leather, $.60. In the Riverside School Library. Houghton.
"Tales from Shakespeare." Illustrated by Homer W. Colby after Pillé. 12mo. Cloth, $.40. Heath.
"Tales from Shakespeare." Illustrated. 12mo. Linen boards, $.75. In the Chandos Classics. Warne.
"Tales from Shakespeare." 12mo. Cloth, $.35; leather, $.70. In Everyman's Library. Dutton.
"Tales from Shakespeare." 16mo. Cloth, $.50. Crowell.
"Tales from Shakespeare." 12mo. Cloth, $.25. Cassell.
"Lamb's Tragedies and Comedies." Edited by W. J. Rolfe. 12mo. Cloth, $.60. American.
"Lamb: Tales from Shakespeare." Edited by A. Ainger. (Pocket Classics Series.) 24mo. Cloth, $.25. Macmillan.
It might not be amiss to insert several other volumes of tales from Shakespeare's plays at this point. Among these the following have proved themselves good:
"Shakespeare in Tale and Verse." By G. Louis Hufford. 12mo. Cloth, $1.00. Macmillan.
"The Shakespeare Story-Book." Told by Mary Macleod. With an introduction by Sidney Lee and illustrations by Gordon Browne. 8vo. Cloth, 6s. Gardner. Sixteen tragedies and comedies.
"Stories from Shakespeare." Told by Thomas Carter. Illustrated in colour by Gertrude Hammond. 8vo. Cloth, $1.50. Crowell.
*"Shakespeare's Stories of the English Kings." Illustrated in colour by Gertrude Hammond. 8vo. Cloth, $1.50. Crowell. This and the preceding volume are rich in excerpts from the plays. After Lamb has been appreciated, the reading of these stories will help the boy along toward the plays in the original text.
"Historic Tales from Shakespeare." Told by Sir Arthur T. Quiller-Couch. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50. Scribner.
"A Midsummer Night's Dream." Edited by Ernest C. Noyes. 24mo. Cloth, $.25. (Pocket Classics.) Macmillan.
"The Tempest." Edited by S. C. Newson. 24mo. Cloth, $.25. (Pocket Classics.) Macmillan.
"The Merchant of Venice." Edited by Charlotte Underwood. 24mo. Cloth, $.25. (Pocket Classics.) Macmillan.