1913 Cosmopolitan Magazine Booklovers Shakespeare Ad Vintage Ephemera For Sale

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1913 Cosmopolitan Magazine Booklovers Shakespeare Ad Vintage Ephemera:
$14.25

This original 1913 advertisement from Cosmopolitan Magazine promotes the Booklovers Shakespeare, a 40-volume edition featuring 7,000 pages and 400 illustrations. The ad highlights the set's large type, ample margins, and durable art cloth binding, emphasizing its value as a complete and unabridged Shakespeare collection. Sold by The University Society of New York, the set offers notable features such as a topical index, critical commentary, glossaries, and study notes by renowned Shakespearean scholars.Measuring approximately 8 x 10 inches, this vintage ephemera piece offers a fascinating glimpse into early 20th-century literary marketing and book collecting. The page displays minor edge wear and light aging typical of century-old paper, but the text and visuals remain clear and intact, making it a desirable collectible for Shakespeare enthusiasts, vintage magazine collectors, and ephemera archivists alike.