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Tales from Shakespear. Designed for the use of young persons.

Title: Tales from Shakespear. Designed for the use of young persons. By Charles Lamb.
Author: Lamb, Charles, 1775-1834.
Publication: London : Printed for Thomas Hodgkins, at the Juvenile Library, Hanway-Street (opposite Soho Square), Oxford Street; and to be had of all booksellers. 1807.

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Status	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	Restricted use	*KL (Lamb, C. Tales from Shakespear)	Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	Permit needed	Pforz (Lamb, C. Tales from Shakespear. 1807)	Schwarzman Building - Pforzheimer Collection Room 319

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Description

2 v. : ill.; 18 cm.

Subject

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > Adaptations > Juvenile literature

Note

"Embellished with copper-plates."
Printer's imprint: "T. Davison, Printer, Whitefriars."
Publisher's advertisements: v. 2, p. [262-264].
Of the twenty tales included, six were written by Charles Lamb (Romeo, Lear, Othello, Timon, Macbeth, and Hamlet); the other fourteen are attributed to Mary Lamb (cf. J. C. Thompson's Bibliography of the writings of Charles and Mary Lamb).
Illustrations: Twenty engravings, designed by William Mulready.

Access (note)

Restricted access;

Call Number

*KL (Lamb, C. Tales from Shakespear)

OCLC

1457532

Author

Lamb, Charles, 1775-1834.

Title

Tales from Shakespear. Designed for the use of young persons. By Charles Lamb.

Imprint

London : Printed for Thomas Hodgkins, at the Juvenile Library, Hanway-Street (opposite Soho Square), Oxford Street; and to be had of all booksellers. 1807.

Restricted Access

Restricted access; Pforzheimer Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.

Local Note

Pforzheimer copy: Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe; in full green crushed levant morocco, backs and sides decorated with gold tooling and with red floral inlays, backs panelled, gilt letters, gilt rules on cover edges and turn-ins; withinin lined cloth fold-back case with gilt spine titling.

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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Bibliographic antecedent

Lamb, Mary, 1764-1847.

Hodgkins, Thomas. Publisher

Davison, Thomas, 1765?-1830. Printer

Mulready, William, 1786-1863. Illustrator

Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Binder

Research Call Number

*KL (Lamb, C. Tales from Shakespear)

Pforz (Lamb, C. Tales from Shakespear. 1807)

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