_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 14_s._ 1808. [11] _Title_: THE | ADVENTURES | of | ULYSSES | by | CHARLES LAMB | London: | Printed by T. Davison, Whitefriars | for the Juvenile Library, No. 41 Skinner-| Street, Snow Hill | 1808 16mo _Collation_: Engraved Frontispiece, 1 page, Vignette Title, 1 page, Title, 1 page. pp. vi. pp. 203. Advertisement on reverse of page 203. Size 6⅞ × 4⅛. _Note._ “I have done two books since the failure of my farce: they will both be out this summer. The one is a juvenile book--the ‘Adventures of Ulysses,’ intended to be an introduction to the reading of Telemachus! It is done out of the Odyssey, not from the Greek (I would not mislead you) nor yet from Pope’s Odyssey, but from an older translation of one Chapman.” See Letter to Manning, February 26, 1808. _Price._ Johnson Sale, New York, 1890 [morocco, gilt], $20. Sotheby’s, 1888 [calf], £3 7_s._ 6_d._--uncut original boards, £3 3_s._ Sotheby’s, 1889 [calf], £5 12_s._ 6_d._ Robson & Kerslake, 1889 [calf, gilt], £8 8_s._ Sotheby’s, 1889 [calf], £2 6_s._ J. Pearson [calf, by Bedford], £6 6_s._ Scribner & Welford [original boards, uncut], $16.00. 1808. [12] _Title_: SPECIMENS | of | ENGLISH DRAMATIC POETS, | who lived | about the time of SHAKESPEARE: | with Notes. | By Charles Lamb. | London: | Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, | Paternoster-Row. | 1808, small 8vo _Collation_: Bastard Title, 1 page, Title, 1 page. pp. xii. pp. 484. Size 5 × 7¾. _Note._ “It is done out of the old Plays at the Museum and out of Dodsley’s Collection, etc. It is to have Notes.” [See Letter to Manning, February 26, 1808.] _Price._ Johnson Sale, N. Y., 1890 [morocco, gilt], $7.00. Sotheran, 1890 [uncut], £2 2_s._ J. Pearson, 1890 [half calf, gilt top, uncut], £3 15_s._ Scribner & Welford [boards, uncut], $16.50. 1809. [13]