Item #73195 Tales From Shakespeare. With Twelve Illustrations in Permanent Photography from the Boydell Gallery. Charles LAMB, Mary, William SHAKESPEARE.
Tales From Shakespeare. With Twelve Illustrations in Permanent Photography from the Boydell Gallery.
Tales From Shakespeare. With Twelve Illustrations in Permanent Photography from the Boydell Gallery.

Tales From Shakespeare. With Twelve Illustrations in Permanent Photography from the Boydell Gallery.

London: Bickers and Son, 1890. [Shakespeare] FINELY BOUND, reprint thus. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[10] 386 [2]. With twelve photogravure illustrations including a frontispiece. Burgundy full calf to boards, double-ruled in gilt. Brown label with gilt titles, gilt tooling, and raised bands to spine. Marbled endpapers and edges. A pencil school prize inscription to first blank, and a moderate tobacco scent throughout, otherwise internally clean. Toned and rubbed to spine, with moderate general wear, and a water stain to lower board. Very good. Charles and Mary Lamb's famous prose re-tellings of Shakespeare, intended for the enjoyment of children. This edition features illustrations from the Boydell project, an artistic venture which capitalised on the mid-18th century Shakespeare revival in England. Item #73195

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