SHAKESPEARE'S HEROINESCharacteristics of WomenMoral, Poetical and Historicalby ANNA JAMESONWith Six Colour Plates& 70 Half Tone Illustrations by Walter PagetLondon: Ernest NisterNew York: E. P. Duttonno date [1908?]Superbly bound in full pictorial clothillustrated on the front cover and the spine, all edges gilt,art nouveau illustrated endpapers signed in the image "T.H.R."[possibly Thomas Henry Rothwell? same style as cover],"printed in Bavaria" [at the foot of the last page]numbered "1135" [at the bottom of the title page]8-1/2" tall, 308 pages, many illustrations,including 6 full page chromolithographs:RosalindPortiaOpheliaDesdemonaCleopatraConstanceOwner gift inscription on endpaper dated 1908. Spine slightly cocked, covers slightly worn and rubbed,but the book is still in quite good or better condition==============from wikipedia:Anna Brownell Jameson (nee Murphy) (17 May 1794 – 17 March 1860) was the first English art historian. Born in Ireland (she migrated to England at the age of four), she became a well-known British writer and contributor to nineteenth-century thought on a range of subjects including early feminism, art history (particularly sacred art), travel, Shakespeare, poets, and German culture. Jameson was connected to some of the most prominent names of the period including Fanny Kemble, Elizabeth Barrett-Browning and Robert Browning, Harriet Martineau, Ottilie von Goethe (the daughter of Goethe), Lady Byron, Charles and Elizabeth Eastlake, and Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon..............The first work which displayed her powers of original thought was her Characteristics of Women (1832). These analyses of William Shakespeare's heroines are remarkable for their delicacy of critical insight and fineness of literary touch. They are the result of a penetrating, essentially feminine mind, applied to the study of individuals of its own sex, detecting characteristics and defining differences not perceived by the ordinary critic and entirely overlooked by the general reader......=================Walter Stanley Paget (1865–1935) was a British illustrator. His work appeared in both books and magazines. He received a gold medal from the Royal Academy of Arts.....================Ernest Nister (1841–1906) was a publisher and printer of movable books for children and paper ephemera such as greeting cards, post cards, and calendars. He was born in Darmstadt, Germany and later had an office in London.