This pair of early 20th-century books features William Shakespeare’s classic tragedy Julius Caesar, published in 1913 by Longmans, Green, and Co. as part of "The Swan Shakespeare" series designed for school use, complete with notes by David Forsyth and full-page illustrations by Grenville Manton. Accompanying it is an Oxford University Press volume of Selections of English Prose (Volume V), which includes curated literary extracts from prominent authors like R.L. Stevenson, Henry James, and George Meredith. Both pocket-sized hardcover volumes show distinct signs of age, with the green Shakespeare cover displaying mild discoloration and edge wear, while the blue prose volume exhibits significant staining, fading, and fraying on its cloth boards; however, the interior pages of both remain intact, clean, and entirely legible.