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Tales from Shakespear : designed for the use of young persons, volume 1
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Book cover; green leather

Tales from Shakespear : designed for the use of young persons, volume 1

Date1807
Names
Alternate Title
  • Tales from Shakespeare
Format
Notes
Drawings attributed to William Mulready, engraving to William Blake. Illustrations: Lear and Fool (plate opposite page [188]; The Witches Cauldron (plate opposite page [215] in volume 1. Six of the tales (i.e. Lear, Macbeth, Timon, Romeo, Hamlet and Othello) are by Charles Lamb, the remaining 14 by Mary Lamb.
Medium
DimensionsCover size: 18 cm x 10.5 cm (7 1/16 in. x 4 1/8 in.)
Extent
  • ix, [3], 235 pages, 10 unnumbered leaves of plates, including frontispiece : illustrations
Language
CollectionOsborne Collection of Early Children's Books
Usage Rights Public Domain (Learn More)
Call Number / Accession Number37131039926845D
Catalogue Record for Print Bookhttps://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Ntt=1115245