[LAKESIDE CLASSICS]. A non-consecutive run of 68 volumes published in R.R. Donnelley's Lakeside Classics series by The Lakeside Press in Chicago, comprising:

Green Lakeside Press Classics. 13 volumes, 1903, 1915-1918, 1920-1927. With duplicates of 1917 and 1922. -- Red Lakeside Press Classics. 25 volumes, 1928-1952. -- Blue Lakeside Press Classics. 25 volumes, 1953-1977. With duplicate of 1954. -- Brown Lakeside Press Classics. 2 volumes, 1978-1979. -- Together, 68 works in 68 volumes including duplicates, all 8vo, many with plates and maps (some folding), all in original cloth gilt, 3 with glassines, condition generally good. Complete list available upon request.

The Lakeside Classics are "understood to be a uniquely Chicago product...In his preface to the 1928 volume Donnelley, reflecting on the commitment to continue the series for another twenty-five years, wrote, 'If the traditions of a press in America will continue for this length of time, we believe those of the Lakeside Press will.' The history of this venerable company and its annual Lakeside Classics is inextricably linked to, and closely interwoven with, the history of Chicago an its reputation as a place where commercial printing and the allied arts were pioneered and flourished" (Coventry, Chicago by the Book 101 Publications that Shaped the City and its Image, p. 63). Caxton Chicago 101, 24.

From the Collection of Pamela W. Habel

[LAKESIDE CLASSICS]. A non-consecutive run of 68 volumes published in R.R. Donnelley's Lakeside Classics series by The Lakeside Press in Chicago, comprising: