Tales from Shakespeare :
designed for the use of young persons /
by Charles Lamb ; embellished with copper-plates. In two volumes.
Description
- Language(s)
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English
- Published
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London : Printed for Thomas Hodgkins ... and to be had of all booksellers, 1807.
- Note
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Vol. I varies from Wise and Thomson: Title-page, [i-ii]; Preface, [v]-xi; Contents, [xii]; Text, [1]-235 p.; Advertisement, [236], with No. 41, Skinner-street address. Vol. II corresponds with the description in Wise and Thomson.
Advertisements: [3] p. at end of v. 2.
"T. Davison, printer, Whitefriars"--Verso of p. 235, v. 1.
The ten plates in each volume were engraved by William Blake from designs by William Mulready. Cf. Thomson.
First edition. Cf. Wise, T.J. Ashley lib., v. 3, p. 42.
Of the twenty tales, six were written by Charles Lamb, the rest were written by his sister, Mary. Cf. Thomson.
- Physical Description
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2 v. :
ill. ;
17 cm. (12mo)
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