TALES FROM SHAKESPEARE BY CHARLES & MARY LAMB 1909 BAYNTUN BINDING, RACKHAM ILLS

[SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM; LAMB, CHARLES & MARY]. Tales from Shakespeare. London: J. M. Dent & Co., 1909.

FIRST TRADE EDITION; leather-bound, hardcover, octavo (23.5 x 15.5 x 3.5cm), pp. xii, 304. English text, with full-page and in text illustrations by Arthur Rackham. Beautifully rebound in full polished calf gilt by Bayntun, all page edges gilt, hand-marbled endpapers, half-title, 13 full-page colour illustrations and numerous illustrations in black and white. Condition: FINE. A wonderful tight and clean copy. Bookplate to front pastedown. Exquisite.

Notes: Rackham first illustrated this work as part of a series of "The Temple Classics For Young People", published in 1899. This edition is a larger edition with added illustrations, presented in a fantastic binding by Bayntun. Latimore & Haskell, p. 33; Riall, p. 90.