17755 Heyer Lush color illustrations

Lush color illustrations

A nineteenth century honeymoon in grand style

Red cloth with gold embossed titles and inset color illustration on front cover

Stacy Gillis

17755 Heyer Lush color illustrationsIllustrated and decorated by Golden Age illustrator Clara Elsene Peck in art nouveau style. A delightful love story told by Anne Hathaway, Mistress Shakespeare, in response to a request by Ben Jonson 5 years after the bard's death. Anne relates how, distraught at a rumor about Will, she disguises herself as the boy Cesario and goes to London. She is as successful in her disguise as any of Shakespeare's characters. Plot points may remind you of the