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Tales from Shakespear : designed for the use of young persons / by Charles Lamb.

Accession number
PML 130498-99
Creator
Lamb, Charles, 1775-1834.
Published
London : Printed for M.J. Godwin, at the Juvenile Library, 1809.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
By Charles and Mary Lamb.
Frontispiece portrait of Shakespeare engraved by T. Woolnoth after Zoust.
Advertisements at end of each volume.
First published in 1807; another "second edition" published in 1810.
Uncut.
With "Advertisement to the second edition." before the Preface.
"T. Davison, Whitefriars, London"--T.p. verso.
Publisher's advertisement, vol. 1, p. [236] dated Sept. 1, 1809 plus 12 leaves of publishers' catalogues, the Longman one dated "Corrected to February, 1812"; 3 p. publisher's advertisements, vol. 2 at end.
Description
2 v. : port. ; 18 cm
Provenance
Both vols. inscribed on t.p.: "Louisa Mary Powys from her aunt ?Thigby July 21, 1812."; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Publisher's blue-gray boards.
Classification
Department