Description: 17.4 x 11 cm, blue publisher’s cloth, blind device to front board, gilt lettering to spine, no DJ, pink abstract diaper endpapers, owner’s ink inscription to ffep, dated June 28, 1945.

Serial t.p.: Everyman, I will go with thee, and be thy guide, | In thy most need to go by the side. | — | EVERYMAN’S LIBRARY | EDITED BY ERNEST RHYS | No. 8 | FOR YOUNG PEOPLE | TALES FROM SHAKESPEARE | BY CHARLES AND MARY LAMB | ILLUSTRATIONS BY ARTHUR | RACKHAM ||

Title-page: TALES FROM SHAKESPEARE | {device} | CHARLES AND MARY LAMB | LONDON: J. M. DENT & SONS LTD. | NEW YORK: E. P. DUTTON & CO. INC. ||

T.p verso: All rights reserved | Made in Great Britain | at The Temple Press Letchworth | for | J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. | Aldine House Bedford St. London | First published 1807 | First published in this edition 1906 | Last reprint (reset) 1944 | [blank] | THIS BOOK IS PRODUCED IN COM- | PLETE CONFORMITY WITH THE | AUTHORIZED ECONOMY STANDARDS ||

Collation: 16mo; [A]-K¹⁶; total 160 leaves, 9 full-page illustrations after Arthur Rackham, within collation (text on the other side).

Pagination: [i-iv] v-viii, 1-312, total 320 pages, ils.

Contributors:

William Shakespeare (English, 1564 – 1616)

Mary Ann Lamb (British, 1764 – 1847) – author.

Charles Lamb (British, 1775 – 1834) – author.

Ernest Percival Rhys (British, 1859 – 1946) – editor.

Arthur Rackham (British, 1867 – 1939) – artist.

Temple Press, Letchworth, England – printer.

Joseph Malaby Dent (British, 1849 – 1926) – publisher.

Note: “On the writing desk were two books – identical copies of Lamb’s Tales From Shakespeare. […] — Why did you choose Lamb? — It was the only book I could find in duplicate except Uncle Tom’s Cabin…” Graham Greene. Our Man in Havana.