Journeys Through Bookland Volume Nine by Charles H. Sylvester (Good, 1909, HC, 491 pgs, Bellows-Reeve)

Cover has some wear; pages have some wear and are lightly age-toned; book is slightly curved; some pages are slightly loose.

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.