CHARLES AND MARY LAMB. — Tales from Shakespeare With twelve illustrations in permanent photography from the Boydell Gallery.

Bickers and Son, London, 1st Edition, First Edition Thus. Printed at the Chiswick Press. 8vo. 386pp. A handsome contemporary binding for Trent Collage in full blue calf with raised bands and gilt lettering, rules and tooling. With handsome marbled edges and endpapers. Trent College motif gold-stamped to the upper board, and with the remnants of their library plate to the front pastedown. The calf lightly marked in one or two places, with a touch of rubbing to the corner tips, and a little wear and splitting to the extremities of the outer hinges. A touch of very light spotting and soiling to a dozen preliminary leaves. A very good copy of this series of prose summaries of twenty Shakespeare plays (Charles Lamb mostly contributing the tragedies whilst his sister focuses on the comedies), splendidly enhanced with a dozen beautifully reproduced artworks inspired by the plays, each pasted to considerably thicker paperstock., Very Good