The Works of Charles Lamb. Consisting of The Prose Works (3 vols.); The Poetical Works (1 Vol.); Tales from Shakespeare (1 Vol.); Specimens of English Dramatic Poets Who Lived About the Time of Shakespeare (2 Vols.).

Language: English

Published by London: Edward Moxon, 1835-38, 1835

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7 volumes, 12mo., ([viii], 356pp. + [vi], 340pp. + xvi, 296pp. + xii, 287pp. + viii, 375pp. + xii, 367pp. + xii, 378pp.), some b/w illustrations to vol. V, top edges blocked in gilt, marbled endpapers to each volume, all volumes bound in matching contemporary navy half morocco over marbled boards, gilt ruled spines in compartments with raised bands and gilt titles by Roger de Coverley & Sons (each volume with their name stamp to verso of front free endpaper). A generally VG+ clean tightly bound set of early editions with only some light wear and some neat colour touch-ups to some extremities. Volume 1 of this set has a pencil note to verso of front free endpaper to say it was previously purchased at James Bain Booksellers in 1917 for £6. Ex Lbris Oliver Brett (3rd Viscount Esher, who was a British peer and politician) with his fine engraved bookplate to each volume. Charles Lamb (1775 1834) was an English essayist, poet, and antiquarian, best known for his Essays of Elia and for the children's book Tales from Shakespeare, co-authored with his sister, Mary Lamb (1764 1847). Friends with such literary luminaries as Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey, William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth and William Hazlitt, Lamb was at the centre of a major literary circle in England. He has been referred to by E. V. Lucas, his principal biographer, as "the most lovable figure in English literature".…

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Title
The Works of Charles Lamb. Consisting of The Prose Works (3 vols.); The Poetical Works (1 Vol.); Tales from Shakespeare (1 Vol.); Specimens of English Dramatic Poets Who Lived About the Time of Shakespeare (2 Vols.).
Author
LAMB, Charles [Roger de Coverley Leather Bindings]:
Publisher
London: Edward Moxon, 1835-38
Publication year
1835
Condition
Near Fine
Binding
Hardcover
Language
English
Edition
3rd Edition
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Antiquarian Literature, Fine bindings, Poetry

Geoffrey Jackson

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