Journeys Through Bookland Vol 8, ed. Charles Sylvester, 1922, Antique Illustrated Children's Anthology, inc. US Literature, History, Poetry

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Journeys Through Bookland, edited by Charles Sylvester, 1922, published by Bellows-Reeve Company, Chicago. Hardback, 492 pages

'A New and Original Plan for Reading Applied to the World's Best Literature for Children'

This antique children's hardback is beautifully illustrated throughout in black and white, and with some colour plates.
It includes American history and literature, as well as Burns, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Shakespeare (see contents below).

It is in fair condition:
- the cover has wear, rubbing and a missing part on the front picture
- inside there is a name on the inside front cover
- a couple of pages have small tape repairs on the edge (see pics)
- page 180 has some scuffing on the title
- there is some minor foxing throughout

22.5cm x 15cm x 3cm approx.

Contents:
Ringrose and the Bucaneers
David Crockett
Davied Crockett in the Creek War
America by Samuel Francis Smith
The Retreat of Cortes by William H Prescott
Battle of Ivry by Thomas Babington Macauley
The Battle of Thermopylae
Marco Bozzaris by Fitz-Greene Halleck
A Descent into the Maelstrom by Edgar Allen Poe
Pere Marquette by Jared Sparks
The Fall of the Alamo
The Alhambra by Washington Irving
Herve Riel by Robert Browning
The Battle of Waterloo by Lord Byron
How they Took the Gold Train by Charles Kingsley
A Bed of Nettles by Grant Allen
Washington Irving
The Knickerbocker History of New York by Washington Irving
The Battle of Trafalgar by Robert Southey
Casablanca by Felicia Hemans
The Romance of the Swan's Nest by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The Cotter's Saturday Night by Robert Burns
Charles and Mary Lamb
Dream Children: A Revery by Charles Lamb
Reading Shakespeare
The Tempest, A Tale of Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb
The Tempest by William Shakespeare
Studies for The Tempest


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