Q: HI! I have unearthed a family basement that has been around for nearly 100 years and came across an awesome book with Altemus Bookbindery’s name on it and thought I might ask…

It is the Tales of Shakespeare as shown on the photo attached. It does not match the one you have pcitured online here. Can you tell me anything about it or what it might be worth? Curious…maybe a great find or a family keeper…

Any information is precious. Thank you!!

A: Your book is part of the Altemus Library and is pictured here http://henryaltemus.com/series/series37.htm as #13.

Altemus published this title in numerous formats and all of them are reprints. This series is the first of the numerous publisher’s series that Altemus printed. Interestingly each title in this series was published with its own unique cover.

That makes this publisher’s series different from all the other ones that Altemus did.

Your title however is not a very widely collected one and since it is a reprint, has only nominal value.