1926-1930 Told Through the Ages Series; Boyhood Stories of Famous men; Stories from Dickens; Stories from Scottish History; Britain Long Ago, Stories from Old English and Celtic Sources; Women of the Classics

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Colour Plates, Decorative Binding, Limited Edition, Publishers' Original Binding

Five illustrated volumes from the Told Through the Ages Series for children. Illustrations in all volumes collated and complete. Includes Boyhood Stories of Famous men, Stories from Dickens, Stories from Scottish History, Stories from Old English and Celtic Sources and Women of the Classics. Whilst Katherine Dunlop Cather mixes fact and fiction for her stories about the childhoods of men such as Mozart, Chopin, and Rembrandt, J. Walker McSpadden reconfigures the stories of Dickens by focussing on solely one their protagonists, including David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, and Pip. Stories from Scottish history offers selected stories from Walter Scott's Tales of a Grandfather, whilst Britain Long ago retells Celtic folktales and Women of the classics puts the spotlight on classical characters such as Helen, Circe, Calypso and Nausicaa Reprints dated between 1926 and 1930, in decorative bindings. Boyhood, Stories of Famous men and Britain Long Ago have sticker from 'Harold Cleaver limited, Bookseller, Bath' on front pastedown. Stories of famous men has ink inscription of prior owners name to recto of front endpaper and a blind stamp for 'Westfield House, Hadstock, Somerset' on this page, whilst Britain Long Ago also has ink inscription to Bill from his mother. Other three copies have prize sticker's on either the pastedown or rector of front endpaper for Bruce Arundale, J.W Walker, and Joy Forde from different schools. Stories from Dickens has Highfield College gilt stamp to exterior of front board.