LAMB, Charles and Mary LAMB. Tales from Shakespear. Designed for the Use of Young Persons . London: Thomas Hodgkins, at the Juvenile Library, 1807. 2 volumes, 12 o (167 x 100 mm). 3-page publisher's advertisements at end of vol. II. 20 engraved plates, including frontispieces. (Frontispiece in vol. II with tiny repair in blank lower margin, "Beatrice in the Arbour" plate with small hole.) Modern blue crushed levant morocco gilt, edges gilt, by Riviere. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with the printer's imprint on the verso of p.235 in volume one, 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)
LAMB, Charles and Mary LAMB. Tales from Shakespear. Designed for the Use of Young Persons . London: Thomas Hodgkins, at the Juvenile Library, 1807. 2 volumes, 12 o (167 x 100 mm). 3-page publisher's advertisements at end of vol. II. 20 engraved plates, including frontispieces. (Frontispiece in vol. II with tiny repair in blank lower margin, "Beatrice in the Arbour" plate with small hole.) Modern blue crushed levant morocco gilt, edges gilt, by Riviere. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with the printer's imprint on the verso of p.235 in volume one, 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)
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