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Lamb, Charles and Mary; Maud and Miska PetershamABAA

Tales from Shakespeare Macmillan Children's Classics

1930réf. 68663New York: The Macmillan Company 1930. New Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 375pp. Duodecimo 19 cm Red cloth over boards lettered and pictorially stamped in black ink on the spine and front board. Illustrated endpapers. Small ding to top edge of rear board. Light foxing to the text block edges. Endpapers discolored along the hinges. Prior owner's name on the front free endpaper and again in the top margin of p. 100. Discreet May Co. label and price ticket on rear pastedown. In the dust jacket with periodic shallow chips to the edges and one tiny open tear in the surface of the rear panel. The popular retellings of Shakespeare's best-loved plays by the brother-and-sister duo of Charles and Mary Lamb. With four color plates a numerous illustrations in black and white by Maud and Miska Petersham. "Maud Fuller Petersham was born August 5 1890 in Kingston NY. She graduated from Vassar College in 1912 and later studied at the New York School of Fine and Applied Arts. While working for the International Art Service an advertising agency in New York City she met and married co-worker Miska Petersham. He had been born Mikaly Petrezselyem in Torokszentmiklos Hungary on September 20 1888. In 1920 the Petershams illustrated their first book for children The Enchanted Forest by William Bowen. During their long and prolific careers they illustrated dozens of books by many different authors of both fiction and nonfiction. The Petershams also wrote and illustrated many books together beginning in 1929 with Miki the story of a little boy's trip to Hungary. In 1942 the Petershams received a Caldecott Honor citation for An American A B C and in 1946 they won the Caldecott Medal for The Rooster Crows: A Book of American Rhymes and Jingles. Miska Petersham died on May 15 1960 and Maud Fuller Petersham died on November 29 1971." - University of Minnesota Libraries website. The Macmillan Company hardcover books

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