Tales from Shakespear
Subtitle: designed for the use of young persons
By: by Charles Lamb
Contributors: Lamb, Mary, 1764-1847; Blake, William, 1757-1827; Mulready, William, 1786-1863
Edition: 2d ed
Publisher: Printed for M. J. Godwin, at the Juvenile Library
Published: 1809
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616 -- Adaptations
Notes: By Charles and Mary Lamb

Portrait of Shakespeare engraved by T. Woolnoth after Zoust

"N.B.  A few copies have been worked off on the plan of the former impression ... "--Advertisement, p. iv, vol. 1

Advertisements ([1], [5] p.) at end of each volume

First published in 1807; another "second edition" published in 1810

Confer Gumuchian, 3614, who notes the first edition was illustrated with 20 plates engraved by William Blake from drawings by William Mulready

Osborne Coll., v. 1, p. 274

King Collection copy illustrated with same engraved plates used in first (1807) edition, bound in original calf with decorated spines and leather lables. Early owners' names, Anne Lovill (1814) and Stephen Arthur Smith (1896), inscribed inside front covers, overlaid with heraldic bookplate of Walter Thomas Wallace in v. 2