Tales from Shakespeare, by Charles and Mary Lamb Published by Hodder & Stoughton, First Thus, circa 1906 Printed by Turnbull & Spears, Edinburgh Illustrated with sixteen tipped in colour plates by W. Heath Robinson All plates are clean and in very good condition with their own annotated tissue paper protectors Colourful pictorial endpapers, front and back, clean Owner’s inscription Uncommon fine binding, very soft leather; suede Brown with green colour to front and back, gold titles and decorations with raised embossed figure to front in green. Gold is bright. Soft suede on spine, worn/crumbly, fraying at top edge Large format 380 pages, generally clean Paper edged all sides in gold Eighteen stories adapted from the plays of Shakespeare, including such favourites as Macbeth, Hamlet, Midsummer Night’s Dream, King Lear, Twelfth Night, The Taming of the Shrew, Romeo and Juliet, The Tempest and Othello. Scarce copy, antique