Books with author W S 1836-1911 Gilbert

Excerpt from Princess Ida: Or Castle AdamantSearch throughout the panorama For a Sign of royal Gama, Who to-day should cross the water With his fascinating daughter Ida is her name.Some misfortune evidently Has detained them - consequently Search throughout the panorama For the daughter of King Gama, Prince Hilariou's flame!About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Little Leather Library series; Bab Ballads by W. S. Gilbert. 91 pp; illustrated. The Little Leather Library was a series of miniature, abridged leatherbound volumes of famous speeches and works by classic literary authors. The leather covers were uniform in style and color. They were stamped with the title and author's name printed inside identical floral borders. The series was founded around 1914 and continued to be sold until 1923. Expect the pages near the covers to be age tanned by the leather.