Charles Lamb - Le Mémorial de Shakspere - 1842

The Memorial of Shakspere
Charles Lamb
Paris, Baudry, 1842.
In-8, XLVIII-360pp
24×16cm
900g

Superb original edition in publisher's binding, full leather, for The Memorial of W. Shakspere. Shaksperian Tales by Charles Lamb, translated from English by M. Alphonse Borghers.
Introduction by M. Philarète Chasles, Preceded by A Life of Shakspere and Lamb, by M. Amédée Pichot.
Full leather binding with period cold-stamped motifs, decorated and titled spine. Gilded edges
Original edition containing an important introduction by M. Philarète Chasles.
Work detailing the legends of Shakespeare's various plays, illustrated with a frontispiece title page engraved, numerous vignettes in the text, and twenty engravings hors-texte.
Some signs of wear to the binding (corners), yellow endpapers with strong foxing, nevertheless a very good copy with an especially fresh interior, without foxing.