Shakespeare's Heroines & Others, 1890

"Shakespeare's Heroines, Characteristics of Women Moral, Poetical and Historical". Published by Henry Altemus around 1890 (no date). The cover is darkened beige with floral decoration. The gilt on the cover and backstrip is soiled / darkened. The back cover is beige. The endpapers are decorated with a penned signature on the left endpaper. There is a penned signature on the first title page (upper edge). There is a color plate illustration of "Ophelia" on the frontispiece. The interior pages are soft and intact with moderate tanning throughout. 383 pages, size: 6.5 x 4.35"
"Opening a Chesnut Burr" by E.P. Roe. Published by Dodd, Mead and Company, New York around 1890 (no date). The cover is dark beige with a blue and orange cover design. There is a light pen mark on the cover on the title. The backstrip is heavily darkened with a tear on the upper backstrip edge. The back cover is tan and good. The endpapers are clean and white. There is light purple crayon swipes on a blank pre-title page. The interior pages are soft and intact with moderate tanning throughout. There is a brown spot in the margin on page 153. There is a streak of purple crayon on page 76-77. 383 pages, size: 6.35 x 4.25"
"Knickerbocker's History of New York" by Washington Irving. Published by Hurst and Company in an Arlington Edition around 1890 (no date). The cover is dark medium blue with black decorative lines. The backstrip is discolored (lightened) with gilt on the title block. There is a warp in the cloth near the title block. The back cover is blue with moderate soiling. The book opens to the title page. The interior pages are stiff and heavily darkened. There is a moisture spot on the lower right corner throughout the book. There are small brown dots on the title page. There is a hole near the upper right page corner from page 71-110. 253 pages, size: 7.25 x 5"