Arthur Rackham, Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb

A finely bound, limited edition of Tales From Shakespeare, which has ben signed by the illustrator.

• Charles and Mary Lamb (English).
• Illustrated Arthur Rackham. 
• London: J. M. Dent & Co., 1909.
• Illustrated with tipped in color plates and black and white illustrations in text by Arthur Rackham, an additional plate entitled "Puck" facing page 16 appears in this edition not included in the trade edition.
• Limited to 750 numbered and signed copies of which this is #217.
• Bound in fine full orange morocco, ribbed gilt decorated spine, spine panels with gilt decorated red and green morocco onlays, covers tooled with matching onlays in an art nouveau style, recessed panel to front cover reproducing "Puck" in a slightly two-dimensional multicolor morocco onlays, green and red morocco doublures, yellow silk endpapers, gilt dentelles, all edges gilt, housed in it's original light brown clamshell slipcase, gilt title to spine, by Cedric Chivers of Bath.

According to the Cambridge History of English Literature, "the first book which, appealing to a general audience and to a rising generation, made Shakespeare a familiar and popular author."