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Tales from Shakespear : designed for the use of young persons / by Charles Lamb ; embellished with copper-plates ; in two volumes.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Singer-Mendenhall Collection PR2877 .L3 1807 v.1-2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lamb, Charles, 1775-1834
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Stories, plots, etc--Juvenile literature.
- Shakespeare, William.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Adaptations--Juvenile literature.
- Genre:
- Stories, plots, etc.
- Adaptations.
- Fine bindings.
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Parker, Edward Ludlow (bookplate)
- Physical Description:
- 2 volumes : illustrations ; 18 cm
- Other Title:
- Tales from Shakespeare
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed for Thomas Hodgkins ... and to be had of all booksellers, 1807.
- Contents:
- v. 1. The tempest. A midsummer night's dream. The winter's tale. Much ado about nothing. As you like it. The two gentlemen of Verona. The merchant of Venice. Cymbeline. King Lear. Macbeth
- v. 2. All's well that ends well. The taming of the shrew. The comedy of errors. Measure for measure. Twelfth night, or, What you will. Timon of Athens. Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet, prince of Denmark. Othello. Pericles, prince of Tyre.
- Notes:
- Coauthored by Mary Lamb.
- 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.
- Local Notes:
- Library's copy bound by Wood of London in full dark blue morocco with gold-tooled floral ornaments in corners, repeated on spine and on inner dentelles; five raised bands on spine; title and author's name in gold on spine; marbled endpapers; top edge gilt. Name of binder stamped in gold on front turn-in.
- Cited in:
- Thomson, J.C. Bibl. of Charles and Mary Lamb, 19
- Block, A. Engl. novel (1961 ed.), p.132
- Wise, T.J. Ashley lib., v. 3, p. 42
- OCLC:
- 1457532
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