An edition of Tales from Shakespeare [20 tales] (1807)

Tales from Shakespear

designed for the use of young persons

2d ed
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Tales from Shakespear
Charles Lamb
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An edition of Tales from Shakespeare [20 tales] (1807)

Tales from Shakespear

designed for the use of young persons

2d ed
  • 4.00 ·
  • 3 Ratings
  • 49 Want to read
  • 9 Currently reading
  • 6 Have read

Contains 20 adaptations from Shakespeare;
The Tempest (Mary Lamb)
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Mary Lamb)
The Winter's Tale (Mary Lamb)
Much Ado About Nothing (Mary Lamb)
As You Like It (Mary Lamb)
Two Gentlemen of Verona (Mary Lamb)
The Merchant of Venice (Mary Lamb)
Cymbeline (Mary Lamb)
King Lear (Charles Lamb)
Macbeth (Charles Lamb)
All's Well That Ends Well (Mary Lamb)
The Taming of the Shrew (Mary Lamb)
The Comedy of Errors (Mary Lamb)
Measure for Measure (Mary Lamb)
Twelfth Night (Mary Lamb)
Timon of Athens (Charles Lamb)
Romeo and Juliet (Charles Lamb)
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (Charles Lamb)
Othello (Charles Lamb)
Pericles, Prince of Tyre (Mary Lamb)

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Cover of: Tales from Shakespeare
Tales from Shakespeare
1966, Parents' Magazine Press
in English
Cover of: Tales from Shakespeare
Tales from Shakespeare
1962, Macmillan Company
in English
Cover of: Tales from Shakespeare
Tales from Shakespeare
1922, David McKay company
in English
Cover of: Tales from Shakespeare
Cover of: Tales from Shakespeare
Cover of: Tales from Shakespeare
Tales from Shakespeare
1908, J.M. Dent & Co., E.P. Dutton & Co.
in English
Cover of: Tales from Shakespeare
Cover of: Tales from Shakespeare
Tales from Shakespeare
1890, Frederick A. Stoakes
in English
Cover of: Tales from Shakespeare
Cover of: Tales from Shakespeare.
Tales from Shakespeare.
1856, Phillips, Sampson, and company
- From the 5th London ed.
Cover of: Tales from Shakespear
Tales from Shakespear: designed for the use of young persons
1809, Printed for M. J. Godwin, at the Juvenile Library
in English - 2d ed

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By Charles and Mary Lamb

Portrait of Shakespeare engraved by T. Woolnoth after Zoust

"N.B. A few copies have been worked off on the plan of the former impression ... "--Advertisement, p. iv, vol. 1

Advertisements ([1], [5] p.) at end of each volume

First published in 1807; another "second edition" published in 1810

Confer Gumuchian, 3614, who notes the first edition was illustrated with 20 plates engraved by William Blake from drawings by William Mulready

Osborne Coll., v. 1, p. 274

King Collection copy illustrated with same engraved plates used in first (1807) edition, bound in original calf with decorated spines and leather lables. Early owners' names, Anne Lovill (1814) and Stephen Arthur Smith (1896), inscribed inside front covers, overlaid with heraldic bookplate of Walter Thomas Wallace in v. 2

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2 v. :

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OL17935843M

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