Tales from Shakspeare: Designed for the Use of Young People
by LAMB, Charles
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Wareham, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Blackie & Son, Limited, 1894. 224pp. Contemporary brown half-morocco, marbled boards, lettered in gilt, T.E.G. Extremities rubbed, spine sunned. Marbled endpapers, prize plate to FEP, occasional spotting. A late Victorian edition of the first work to make the plots of Shakespeare's plays accessible to a juvenile audience. The romantic writers and siblings Charles and Mary Lamb were convinced by William Godwin to undertake the work for his nascent Juvenile Library. Although only Charles Lamb's name adorns the title page, the comedies (some fourteen of the twenty plays, and thus the majority of the work) were composed by Mary. The work was first published in 1807. . 8vo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Antiquates Ltd (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- AQ23364
- Title
- Tales from Shakspeare: Designed for the Use of Young People
- Author
- LAMB, Charles
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Blackie & Son, Limited
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1894
- Keywords
- Children's
- Size
- 8vo
Terms of Sale
Antiquates Ltd
Antiquates Ltd was established by Tom Lintern-Mole in 2007; we travel far and wide to buy, sell, and advise on rare books and manuscripts.
Concentrating on hand-press printing and early modern manuscripts, we pride ourselves on offering a varied selection of antiquarian works on a diverse range of subjects, leaning towards the interesting, the important, and the unusual.
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We also offer a valuation service (for either insurance or probate purposes), as well as advice on library development.
Concentrating on hand-press printing and early modern manuscripts, we pride ourselves on offering a varied selection of antiquarian works on a diverse range of subjects, leaning towards the interesting, the important, and the unusual.
We have a countryside bookshop in Wareham; we also regularly issue catalogues - do ask if you would like to be added to our mailing list - and frequently exhibit at regional and national book fairs in London, Bristol, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Oxford, and York.
We also offer a valuation service (for either insurance or probate purposes), as well as advice on library development.
About the Seller
Antiquates Ltd
Biblio member since 2008
Wareham, Dorset
About Antiquates Ltd
Mail Order and Internet, but in normal times we have an antiquarian bookshop in the Dorset countryside.
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- Plate
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- Marbled boards
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- Spine
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- Gilt
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- Sunned
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- Title Page
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