Title: FAULKENER: | A | TRAGEDY. | as it is performed | at | the THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY LANE | By WILLIAM GODWIN | London: | Printed for Richard Phillips, 6, Bridge-Street, | Black-Friars, | By Richard Taylor and Co, Shoe Lane, | 1807. 8vo
Collation: Title, 1 page, Preface, 1 page, Prologue, 1 page, Dramatis Personæ, 1 page. pp. 80. Size 8½ × 5.
Note. The Prologue was by Charles Lamb. The tragedy was produced at Drury Lane, December 16, 1807. The subject was taken from an incident in De Foe’s “Roxana.”
Price. Spencer, 1890 [half morocco], £2 5s.
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Title: TALES | FROM | SHAKESPEAR. | Designed | for the use of young Persons. | by CHARLES LAMB. | Embellished with Copper-Plates. | In two volumes. | Vol I | (Vol II) | London: | Printed by Thomas Hodgkins, at the Juvenile Li-| brary, Hanway-Street (opposite Soho-Square), | Oxford-Street; and to be had of all | Booksellers |. 1807. | 2 vols 12mo. Size 6⅞ × 4.
Collation: Vol I. Frontispiece, 1 page, Title, 1 page. pp. ix. Contents, 1 page, 1 unnumbered page. pp. 235. 10 illustrations. Vol. II. Frontispiece, 1 page, Title, 1 page, Contents, 1 page, 1 unnumbered page. pp. 261. 3 pages of advertisements. Colophon: Printed by T. Davison, Whitefriars.
Note. The greater number of these Tales are written by Mary, viz.: “Tempest,” “As You Like It,” “Winter’s Tale,” “Midsummer Night,” “Much Ado,” “Two Gentlemen of Verona,” “Cymbeline,” “All’s Well that Ends Well,” “Pericles,” “Taming of Shrew,” “Comedy of Errors,” “Measure for Measure,” “Twelfth Night;” the others by Charles Lamb: viz., “Othello,” “Merchant of Venice,” “Macbeth,” “King Lear,” “Romeo and Juliet,” “Hamlet,” “Timon of Athens.” These volumes seem to have been issued in sheep, there being no copies in original boards known. Each volume has ten illustrations, engraved by William Blake, from the designs of Mulready.
Price. Spencer Catalogue, 1890, in the original calf, £22. Dodd & Mead, 1886 [morocco, gilt top], $75. W. E. Benjamin, 1887 [morocco, gilt], $50.00. Sotheby’s, 1888 [morocco, gilt edge], £10. Pickering & Chatto [original calf], £14 14s.