| Summary: | "Cover title. Series transposed; precedes imprint on cover. With an illustrated half-title. This verse version of The tempest was also published by McLoughlin in the compilation Shakspearian tales in verse for children (1882) that has a title page attribution to Mrs. Valentine (i.e., Laura Valentine). Shakespearian tales in verse ... more than fifty illustrations after AndreÌ."--Catalogue of McLoughlin Bros. toy books, 1886: p. 20. "Richard AndreÌ" is the pseudonym of artist William Roger Snow. Cover design looks like the work of McLoughlin artist William Bruton. Cover included in pagination. Cover and illustrations printed in color by a relief process (zinc etching). Illustrations printed in red and grey ink. Text and illustrations are framed with a red border on each page. "Picture books for little children."--back cover. Includes ads for Pantomime toy books, Over the hills, Over the hills series, Fun from the flowery land, A set of China, Greenaway Mother Goose, Greenaway Mother Goose series, Mother Goose in a new dress, Mother Goose in a new dress series, The cruise of the Walnut Shell, and Hans Thumbling and other stories."
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