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Tales from Shakespeare
London: The Temple Press, [1909]. Item #06254
Tales From Shakespeare
Illustrated by Arthur Rackham
[RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator]. LAMB, Charles and Mary. Tales from Shakespeare. London: J.M. Dent & Co., 1909.
First trade edition. Octavo (9 x 6 1/4 inches; 229 x 159 mm.). xii, 304 pp. Twelve color plates, including frontispiece. Two full-page illustrations in black and white, twenty chapter headings, and fourteen tail-pieces.
Publisher’s blue cloth, front cover pictorially stamped in gilt, spine pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, pictorial endpapers printed in brown. Neat contemporary ink inscription on half-title. Spine gilt a trifle dulled, covers lightly stained, extremities rubbed and a little worn. A good copy only.
The plays illustrated in this fine volume are: The Tempest; A Midsummer Night's Dream; The Winter's Tale; Much Ado about Nothing; As You Like It; The Two Gentlemen of Verona; The Merchant of Venice; Cymbeline; King Lear; Macbeth; All's Well that Ends Well; The Taming of the Shrew; The Comedy of Errors; Measure for Measure; Twelfth Night; or, What you Will; Timon of Athens; Romeo and Juliet; Hamlet, Prince of Denmark; Othello; and Pericles, Prince of Tyre.
Latimore and Haskell, pp. 33-34. Riall, p. 90.
Price: $275.00