A COLLECTION OF EASTERN STORIES AND LEGENDS: For Narration or Later Reading in Schools. by Shedlock, Marie L.; compiler and adapter - 1910.

London: George Routledge & Sons, Limited / New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1910., 1910.. Very good.. - Octavo, pictorial red cloth titled in gilt on the spine with an illustration of a tree within a decorative frame in black on the front cover. The corners of the covers and the head & tail of the spine are lightly rubbed. The cloth is slightly bubbled along the bottom edge of the front cover. The front endpaper & the verso of the frontispiece are lightly foxed. xvi & 141 pages plus colophon & 2-page publisher's catalog. Black-and-white frontispiece by Wolfram Onslow Ford reproducing the cover illustration. A few bottom page corners are lightly creased. Very good. <p>First edition.<p>A collection of stories of the Buddha with an introduction by Professor T. W. Rhys Davids. A small figure of the Buddha appears in the illustration's decorative frame.