Journeys Through Bookland Vol 3, ed Charles Sylvester, 1922, Antique Illustrated Children's Hardback, inc. Alice, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales

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Journeys Through Bookland, edited by Charles Sylvester, 1922, published by Bellows-Reeve Company, Chicago. Hardback, 488 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 colour.
It includes extracts from Alice in Wonderland, The Swiss Family Robinson and Fairy and Folk Tales (see contents below).

It is in fair-good condition:
- the cover has wear, rubbing, scratches and marks
- the pages' bottom corners have stains (see pics)
- there is some minor foxing throughout
- pages 77-9 have dents/missing parts on the bottom edge (see pics) that don't affect the text

22.5cm x 15cm x 3.5cm approx.

Contents:
John's Pumpkin by Mrs Archibald
The Mock Turtle's Story by Lewis Carroll
The Spider and The Fly by Mary Howitt
A Farewell by Charles Kingsley
Queen Alice by Lewis Carroll
The Leprechaun by William Allingham
The Walrus and the Carpenter by Lewis Carroll
Beth Gelert by William R Spencer
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Faithless Sally Brown by Thomas Hood
The Mariner's Dream by William Dimond
The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Rudolph Wyss
Echo by John G Saxe
The Story of Aladdin, or The Wonderful Lamp from The Arabian Nights
The Second Voyage of Sinbad the Sailor from The Arabian Nights
Barbara Frietchie by John Greenleaf Whittier
Beowulf and Grendel
Cupid and Psyche adapted by Anna McCaleb
The Pied Piper of Hamelin by Robert Browning
Frithiof the Bold adapted by Grace E Sellon
The Story of Siegfried adapted by Grace E Sellon
Night by Robert Southey
Lochinvar by Sir Walter Scott
Robin Hood
Roland at Roncesvalles

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