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[SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616)]. LAMB, Charles (1775-1834) and Mary LAMB (1764-1847). Tales from Shakespear. Designed for the Use of Young Persons. London: Printed for Thomas Hodgkins, at the Juvenile Library, 1807.
2 volumes, 12o (165 x 103 mm). 3-page publisher's advertisements at end of vol. II. 20 engraved plates, including frontispieces. (Small hole on G12 in vol. II with loss of a few letters, some mostly pale spotting.) Contemporary speckled calf, smooth spines with morocco volume number and lettering-pieces, and with gilt crest with motto "Pandite Coelestes Portae" (front hinge cracked on vol. I, some wear to extremities, minor repairs at ends of spines); brown morocco pull-off case. Provenance: James Gibson of Igliston, Writer to the Signet (binding and bookplates).
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, volume I with the printer's imprint on the verso of p.235, and without the advertisements. William Godwin hired Thomas Hodgkins to run the Juvenile Library on his behalf. Lamb originally intended the Tales to be published anonymously, but Godwin persuaded him to use his name. Ashley III, pp.42-43; Roff/Livingston, pp.61ff. (2)
2 volumes, 12
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, volume I with the printer's imprint on the verso of p.235, and without the advertisements. William Godwin hired Thomas Hodgkins to run the Juvenile Library on his behalf. Lamb originally intended the Tales to be published anonymously, but Godwin persuaded him to use his name. Ashley III, pp.42-43; Roff/Livingston, pp.61ff. (2)